Chapter LXXXV. for the Relief of Beverly B
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CHAP. LXXXV.— An Act for the Relief of Beverly B. Botts, Rosalie S. Lewis, Isabella McLean Lewis, and Mary Minor Hoxsey, Children and Heirs at Law of John M. Botts, deceased. Jan. 31, 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 children and heirs at law of John M. Botts. be, and he is hereby, directed and required to pay, from any moneys in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to the above-enumerated children and heirs at law of John M.
Botts, deceased, late of Culpepper county, in the State of Virginia, the sum of one thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars and sixteen cents; which sum, when paid, shall be in full satisfaction of all claims, on the part of the said heirs at law against the United States, for injuries done or committed by the troops of the United States to the land of said Botts, the timber, fences, and other fixtures, thereon, done to his personal property during the late war of the rebellion; the intent and purpose of this act being that the sum herein named was the just balance due the said John Minor Botts in his lifetime, for all his losses sustained by the action of the Union troops, after deducting the sum of fourteen thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars and sixty-eight cents, paid him, about the first of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, by the Quartermaster’s department.
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 20, 1873. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and 720 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 86, 87, 89. 1873. 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.]