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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · December 17, 1888 · Chapter 5

Chapter 5.

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CHAP. 5.— An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Eliza M. Ferris.December 17, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Reuben D. Smart. To be paid pension due Eliza M. Ferris. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of the proper appropriation for the payment of invalid pensions, to Reuben D. Smart, administrator of Eliza M. Ferris, deceased, the sum of money to which she would have been entitled by pension certificate two hundred and twenty thousand eight hundred and sixty and which was not issued until four days after her death.
Approved, December 17, 1888.
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