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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · July 2, 1884 · Chapter 145

Chapter 145.

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CHAP. 145.— An act for the relief of J. T. Pickett.July 2, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,J. T. Pickett. Payment to. That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to J. T. Pickett, formerly consul at Vera Cruz, Mexico, out of any unappropriated money in the United States Treasury, the sum of one thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars, being the amount advanced and disbursed by him, while acting as such consul, for the relief of destitute American citizens not seamen. Approved, July 2, 1884.
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