Chapter LXXXI. for the Belief of Mary Love
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CHAP. LXXXI.— An Act for the Belief of Mary Love. Jan. 28, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the TreasuryPayment to Mary Love. is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Mary Love, of Roan county, Tennessee, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollars, for services in carrying despatches from General Grant to General Burnside, at Knoxville, Tennessee, through the confederate lines.
J. G. BLAINE, *Speaker of the House of Representatives.* SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate.* Received by the President January 16, 1873. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]