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

Chapter CDXLII. for the Relief of Jane Allen Birckhead and Virginia Campbell, sole Heirs at Law of Alexander Watson, deceased

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CHAP. CDXLII.— An Act for the Relief of Jane Allen Birckhead and Virginia Campbell, sole Heirs at Law of Alexander Watson, deceased. June 10, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Payment to Jane Allen Birckhead and Virginia Campbell. That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to pay to Jane Allen Birckhead and Virginia Campbell, daughters and sole heirs at law of Alexander Watson, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty thousand dollars for property lost, captured, or destroyed in Florida, FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 442–446. 1872. 691 during the Indian hostilities commencing in eighteen hundred and thirty-five. Approved, June 10, 1872.
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