Chapter CCLII. for the Relief of the Widow of D
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CHAP. CCLII.— An Act for the Relief of the Widow of D. Jay Brown, deceased. May 31, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Payment to the widow of D. Jay Brown. That there is hereby appropriated the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, which sum the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to pay, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to the widow of D. Jay Brown, in full compensation for the claim made by the deceased against the United States for services rendered as their agent in visiting various parts of Europe to collect information on the production, manufacture, and commerce of the flax and wines of that country, and to obtain seeds, cuttings, and so forth, under instructions from the Commissioner of the Patent Office dated April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
Approved, May 31, 1872.