Chapter 1161. to compensate Mrs
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CHAP. 1161.— An Act to compensate Mrs. Sarah L. Larimer for important services rendered the military authorities in eighteen hundred and sixty-four at Deer Creek Station, Wyoming.October 16, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Sarah L. Larimer.Payment to. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay Mrs. Sarah L. Larimer the sum of five thousand dollars, in full for valuable services rendered by her to the Government in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four, by giving important information to Captain Shuman, in command of the United States troops, and others, of the evil designs of hostile Indians, while she was held in captivity by them, the said sum to be paid out of any funds due to said Indians if there beany available for such purpose and if there be none, then out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Received by the President October 4, 1888. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]