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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · Dec. 23, 1884 · Chapter 5

Chapter 5. for the relief of Mrs

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CHAP. 5.— An Act for the relief of Mrs. Jane Venable.Dec. 23, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Jane Venable.Relief of That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. Jane Venable, widow of William E. Venable, late minister of the United States to Guatemala the sum of five thousand six hundred and thirty-six dollars and eighty-seven cents, balance of one year’s salary. Approved, December 23d, 1884.
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