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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 33 STAT. · April 28, 1904 · Chapter 1998

Chapter 1998. For the relief of Eugene Patenaude

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CHAP. 1998.— An Act For the relief of Eugene Patenaude. April 28, 1904.[[H. R. 4573](/us/bill/58/hr/4573).][[Private, No. 1734](/us/pvtl/58/1734).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Eugene Patenaude.Payment to. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Eugene Patenaude, of Colchester, Chittenden County, Vermont, the sum of five hundred dollars, in full for injuries sustained by him by reason of his being shot and severely wounded on the twenty-third day of September, nineteen hundred and one, at said Colchester, by a stray bullet fired by an unknown member of Eleventh Regiment United States Cavalry while at target practice.
That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, five hundred dollars for the payment of this claim. Approved, April 28, 1904.
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