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

Chapter X. for the Relief of William Howard

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CHAP. X.— An Act for the Relief of William Howard. Dec. 19, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Payment to William Howard. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, or cause to be paid, to William Howard, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the. sum of one hundred and sixty-five dollars, as compensation in full for one horse and forty bushels of corn, taken from him by W. T. Bennett, A. A. Q. M., twentieth army corps, on the part of the United States government. Approved, December 19, 1872.
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