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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 39 STAT. · February 8, 1917 · Chapter 42

Chapter 42. For the relief of John Brodie

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CHAP. 42.— An Act For the relief of John Brodie. February 8, 1917.[[H. R. 12240](/us/bill/64/hr/12240).][[Private, No. 168](/us/pl/64/168).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, John Brodie. Payment to. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to John Brodie, of San Francisco, California, the sum of $1,000, on account of personal injuries received by him through the explosion of a box of percussion caps while loading the United States Army transport Sherman, in San Francisco Harbor, on the twenty-second day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine: *Provided*, That no *Proviso*.
Free from attachment, etc. sum of money due or to become due to the said John Brodie under this Act shall be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, but shall inure to the benefit of the said John Brodie. Approved, February 8, 1917.
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