Chapter 287. For the relief of Martha A
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CHAP. 287.— An Act For the relief of Martha A. Moffitt. August 7, 1916.[[H. R. 11304](/us/bill/64/hr/11304).][[Private, No. 77](/us/pvtl/64/77).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of theMartha A. Moffitt.Payment to, for death of husband. Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Martha A. Moffitt, of Randolph County, North Carolina, widow of E.
A. Moffitt, who, while in the discharge of his duties as deputy collector, was murdered by Lee Turner, a violator of the United States internal revenue laws, on the fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the sum of $1,500, on account of the murder of her said husband while in the service of the Government of the United States. Approved, August 7, 1916.