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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 39 STAT. · August 21, 1916 · Chapter 384

Chapter 384. For the relief of M

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CHAP. 384.— An Act For the relief of M. E. Sitters. August 21, 1916.[[H. R. 8200](/us/bill/64/hr/8200).][[Private, No. 123](/us/pl/64/123).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, M. E. Sitters. Payment to, for loss of husband. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to M. E. Sitters, widow of Joe Sitters, out of funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,095 as compensation to her for the loss of her husband, who, on the twenty-fourth day of May, nineteen hundred and fifteen, while in discharge of his official duties as a mounted inspector of the United States custom service in Presidio County, Texas, was assassinated by Mexican bandits.
Approved, August 21, 1916.
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