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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · May 14, 1888 · Chapter 247

Chapter 247. authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to award a gold medal of the first class to Captain Thomas Sampson, of New York City, for rescuing five boys from drowning

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CHAP. 247.— An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to award a gold medal of the first class to Captain Thomas Sampson, of New York City, for rescuing five boys from drowning.May 14, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Thomas Sampson.A warded a gold lifesaving medal. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to award to Captain Thomas Sampson, of New York City, a gold medal of the first class, for bravery in rescuing, at the peril of his own life, five boys from drowning—three in June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and two in June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six.
Approved, May 14, 1888.
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