Chapter 122. For the relief of Hattie A
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CHAP. 122.— An Act For the relief of Hattie A. Phillips. March 31, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Hattie A. Phillips.Payment to. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to Hattie A. Phil-lips, widow of John Phillips, deceased, the sum of five thousand dollars as full compensation for the services rendered by the said John Phillips in bearing dispatches from the commanding officer at Fort Phil Kearny to Fort Laramie from December twenty-first to December twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, after the massacre of the United States soldiers under Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Fetterman by the Sioux Indians, and by whose services the garrison at Fort Phil Kearny, then surrounded by said Sioux Indians, was rescued and saved from annihilation, and as full payment of all claims against the United States for loss and destruction of property belonging to said John Phillips, by Indians.
Approved, March 31, 1900.