Chapter CDLIX. *for the Relief of Mrs
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CHAP. CDLIX.— An Act *for the Relief of Mrs. F. Selina Buchanan.* March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the sum of five thousand Payment to Mrs. F. Selina Buchanan.two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-six cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be paid Mrs. F. Selina Buchanan, widow of the late McKean Buchanan, paymaster in the navy, in full satisfaction of any claim of the estate of her said husband, arising ont of damages sustained in consequence of an arbitrary order of the late Commander Claxton reducing the emoluments accruing to said Buchanan during the cruise of the frigate Constitution in eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, eighteen hundred and forty, and eighteen hundred 790 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 460–463. 1873.and forty-one, of which he was purser, below the amount to which he was entitled by law and the usage and custom of'the service. Approved, March 3, 1873.