Chapter 254. for the relief of Benjamin M
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CHAP. 254.— An Act for the relief of Benjamin M. Simpson.May 14, 1888. Whereas, a Revolutionary bounty-land scrip numbered seventy-twoPreamble. hundred and sixty-nine, for eighty acres, founded on Virginia military warrant, the property of Benjamin M. Simpson, is alleged to have been lost or mislaid by an officer of the General Land Office while said scrip was in the custody of the General Land Office: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Benjamin M.
Simpson.Revolutionary bounty-land scrip to., That the Secretary of the Interior, on satisfactory proof of ownership and the loss of said scrip, and that said scrip was lost or mislaid by an officer of the General Land Office, or by an employee of said office, be hereby authorized and directed to reissue and deliver to Benjamin M. Simpson a Revolutionary bounty-land scrip for eighty acres of land. Approved, May 14, 1888.