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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · May 17, 1900 · Chapter 480

Chapter 480. For the relief of Mary A

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CHAP. 480.— An Act For the relief of Mary A. Swift. May 17, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Mary A. Swift. Payment to. That the sum of twelve thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of the money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the relief of Mary A. Swift, widow of the late John F. Swift, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Japan, said amount being the salary allowed by law to the above-named office for one year. Approved, May 17, 1900.
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