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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · Dec. 19, 1872 · Chapter IX

Chapter IX. for the Relief of Thomas C

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CHAP. IX.— An Act for the Relief of Thomas C. Martin, Emilia E. Martin, Jane G. Martin, and Leonor Martin, Children of J. E. Martin, deceased. Dec. 19, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Payment to children of J. E. Martin. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to Thomas C. Martin, Emilia E. Martin, Jane G.
Martin, and Leonor Martin, children of J. E. Martin, deceased, or their legal representatives, the sum of two thousand two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and thirty-five cents, in full for services performed by J. E. Martin, as acting charge d’affaires of the United States at Lisbon, from July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty, to June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. But said money shall not be paid to any person holding a power of attorney or assignment executed prior to the passage of this act.
Approved, December 19, 1872.
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