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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · June 10, 1872 · Chapter CDLVII

Chapter CDLVII. for the Relief of Elbridge Gerry

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CHAP. CDLVII.— An Act for the Relief of Elbridge Gerry. June 10, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That there be, and is hereby,Payment to Elbridge Gerry. appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirteen thousand and two hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to Elbridge Gerry, in full compensation for valuable services rendered the government in eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and for all claims for Indian depredations up to the date of the passage of this act. Approved, June 10, 1872.
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