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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 22 STAT. · August 8, 1882 · Chapter 481

Chapter 481.

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CHAP. 481.— AN ACT for the relief of Mary E. Thomson.August 8, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mary E. Thomson.Permission given to accept certain gifts from King of Siam, etc. That Mary E. Thomson, mother of Passed Assistant Paymaster Curtis H. Thomson. United-States Navy, deceased, be, and is hereby, authorized to accept, first, a portrait, in frame, of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Siam; second, a silver enameled cigar-case; third a match box and tray of Siamese work, the same being presented to said Curtis H.
Thomson, in his lifetime, by the King of Siam, and now on deposit in the Smithsonian Institution. Approved, August 8, 1882.
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