Chapter 259. for the relief of Amanda M
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CHAP. 259.— An Act for the relief of Amanda M. Cook.June 16, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,AmandaM.Cook.Payment to, charged to annuities of Arapahoe or Cheyenne Indians. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to deduct, from any annuities due or to become due to the Cheyenne or Arapahoe Indians, the sum of two thousand dollars, and pay the same to Amanda M. Cook, formerly Amanda M Fletcher, whose mother was killed and herself captured by the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians, in the Territory of Wyoming, in August, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, while en route from the State of Illinois to California.
Approved, June 16, 1880.