Chapter CCXXII. for the Relief of Mrs
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CHAP. CCXXII.— An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Martha L. House Russell. May 27, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Payment to Mrs. Martha L. House Russell. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay, from any moneys in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. Martha L. House Russell, formerly Martha L. House, the sum of eleven thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars, in full compensation for the losses sustained by her in the latter part of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the early part of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, by the appropriation and use by the Union forces, for the benefit of the wounded at the battle of Stone River, and for use at the hospitals of forty-four bales of cotton, twenty thousand pounds of seed cotton, her house supplies, and beds, bedding, clothing, carpets, cotton cloth, and wine, being the sum ascertained to be due her by a board of claims organized by the War Department.
Approved, May 27, 1872.