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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 21 STAT. · Jan. 13, 1881 · Chapter 20

Chapter 20. for the relief of the legal representative of Henry M

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CHAP. 20.— An Act for the relief of the legal representative of Henry M. Shreve, deceased.Jan. 13, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American Congress assembled*,Henry M. Shreve, deceased, payment to legal representatives of. That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the legal representatives of Henry M. Shreve, deceased, the same of fifty thousand dollars as a full compensation for, and in satisfaction of, all claims for the invention of the steam snag-boat, and for the use of the same, past, present, and future, and for any and all rights that the said Shreve may have acquired under the patent granted to him for the invention of the steam snag-boat.
Approved, January 13, 1881.
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