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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · March 11, 1872 · Chapter XLI

Chapter XLI. to reimburse certain Soldiers for Loss of Clothing by Fire at Chicago

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CHAP. XLI.— An Act to reimburse certain Soldiers for Loss of Clothing by Fire at Chicago. March 11, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Certain soldiers to be reimbursed for clothing lost by fire at Chicago. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to issue, without charge, to certain soldiers of the general mounted service, United States army, sufficient clothing, or the money value thereof, to replace the amount lost by each of them during Proviso.their efforts to subdue the fire in Chicago: *Provided,* That the total value of such clothing shall not, in the aggregate, exceed the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars.
Approved, March 11, 1872.
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