Chapter 354. For the relief of Catherine Ratchford
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CHAP. 354.— An Act For the relief of Catherine Ratchford.August 23, 1912.[[S. 4050](/us/bill/62/s/4050).][[Private, No. 102](/us/pvtl/62/102).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sum of nine hundredCatherine Ratchford.Appropriation for payment to, for death of son. dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the relief of Catherine Ratchford, because of the death of her son, James Ratchford, on or about the seventh day of August, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-five, caused by the injuries received by him on or about the twenty-fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, while an employee of the United States Government, riprapping on the Missouri River, near Leavenworth, Kansas, because of the negligent and careless acts of omission of his foreman in using a rotten and defective rope after he had notice of the same, and after they had promised to replace the same.
Approved, August 23, 1912.