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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · March 3, 1885 · Chapter 402

Chapter 402. for the relief of Fendall Carpenter

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CHAP. 402.— An Act for the relief of Fendall Carpenter.March 3, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fendall Carpenter.Belief of,by payment for cot ton seized.Appropriation. That the sum of four thousand four hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay Fendall Carpenter for twenty-five bales of cotton seized and sold by the United States military authorities during the late war, and the proceeds thereof appropriated to the use of the Quartermaster’s Department of the United States Army. Approved, March 3, 1885.
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