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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · March 3, 1873 · Chapter CDLXIV

Chapter CDLXIV. *permitting Lieutenant Theodore B

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CHAP. CDLXIV.— An Act *permitting Lieutenant Theodore B. M. Mason of the Navy, to accpt a Decoration from the Emperor of Brazil.* March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Lieutenant Theodore B. Lieutenant Theodore B. M. Mason may accept a decoration.M. Mason, of the navy of the United States, may accept a decoration of the order of the Rose, tendered to him by the Emperor of Brazil as a testimonial of the courage and humanity displayed by the said Lieutenant Mason in saving the lives of two of his shipmates in the harbor of Rio de Janerio in February, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.
Approved, March 3, 1873.
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