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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · February 26, 1889 · Chapter 290

Chapter 290.

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CHAP. 290.— An act for the relief of J. Edwin Pilcher.February 26, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slides of America in Congress assembled*,J. Edwin Pilcher. Payment to redemption of Texas currency. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to J. Edwin Pilcher, of Louisville, Kentucky, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine hundred and five dollars, it being the amount of one bond of one hundred dollars, and eight hundred and five dollars in paper money of the Republic of Texas: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall find that said*Provisos*.
To be within class heretofore paid. To be genuine. Pilcher’s claims are within the class of claims heretofore paid by the United States out of the Texas indemnity fund: *And provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that said bond and money are genuine: *And provided*, That the said Pilcher shall firstSurrender. surrender said securities to the Secretary of the Treasury. Approved, February 26, 1889.
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