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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · June 8, 1872 · Chapter CDIV

Chapter CDIV. for the Relief of the Estate of Ely Moore

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CHAP. CDIV.— An Act for the Relief of the Estate of Ely Moore. June 8, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Allowance to the estate of Ely Moore. That the sum of eleven thousand two hundred and ninety-nine dollars be, and the same is hereby, allowed to the estate of Ely Moore, late register of the land-office at Lecompton, Kansas, for the money necessarily paid out and expended by said Ely Moore, in the payment of clerks necessarily employed in said land-office, between the nineteenth day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and the twenty-seventh day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty.
Sec. 2. Payment to estate of Ely Moore. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay said estate eleven thousand two hundred and FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 404–408. 1872. 687 ninety-nine dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 8, 1872.
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