Chapter 253. to indemnify certain subjects of the Chinese Empire for losses sustained by the violence of a mob at Rock Springs, in the Territory of Wyoming, in September, eighteen hundred and eighty-five
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CHAP. 253.— An Act to indemnify certain subjects of the Chinese Empire for losses sustained by the violence of a mob at Rock Springs, in the Territory of Wyoming, in September, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.Feb. 24, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriation to indemnify Chinese for losses at. Rock Springs, Wyo. That the sum of one hundred and forty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy-four cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the Chinese Government, in consideration of the losses unhappily sustained by certain Chinese subjects by mob violence at Rock Springs, in the Territory of Wyoming, September second, eighteen hundred and eighty-five; the said sum being intended for distribution among the sufferers and their legal representatives, in the discretion of the Chinese Government.
Approved, February 24, 1887.