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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 39 STAT. · August 7, 1916 · Chapter 280

Chapter 280. For the relief of Elizabeth M

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CHAP. 280.— An Act For the relief of Elizabeth M. Dodge. August 7, 1916.[[H. R. 7423](/us/bill/64/hr/7423).][[Private No. 70](/us/pvtl/64/70).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Elizabeth M. Dodge.Payment to, for loss of husband. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, put of any moneys in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,000 to Elizabeth M.
Dodge, widow of Wallace Dodge, in full of all claims she may have against the Government for the death of said Wallace Dodge while employed by the United States as teamster in the Quartermaster’s Department at the Presidio of Monterey, California, where on the ninth day of June, nineteen hundred and nine, he was shot and killed by a stray bullet from the gun of some member of Troop D, Fourteenth Regiment United States Cavalry, at target practice. Approved, August 7, 1916.
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