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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 39 STAT. · August 7, 1916 · Chapter 289

Chapter 289. For the relief of Mathilda Hesterman

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CHAP. 289.— An Act For the relief of Mathilda Hesterman. August 7, 1916.[[H. R. 11660](/us/bill/64/hr/11660).][[Private, No. 79](/us/pvtl/64/79).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Mathilda Hesterman.Payment to, for death of husband. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Mathilda Hesterman, widow of Herman Hesterman, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,248, on account of the death of said Herman Hesterman, which was caused by the negligence of employees of the United States Government at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in the State of New York, on or about the twenty-eighth of February, nineteen hundred and thirteen.
Approved, August 7, 1916.
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