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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 45 STAT. · March 2, 1929 · Chapter 490

Chapter 490. For the relief of Marie Rose Jean Baptiste, Marius Francois, and Regina Lexima, all natives of Haiti

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Chap. 490: For the relief of Marie Rose Jean Baptiste, Marius Francois, and Regina Lexima, all natives of Haiti. 1929-03-02 490 Chapter 45 Stat. 1477 70 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 public Chapter 490.— An Act For the relief of Marie Rose Jean Baptiste, Marius Francois, and Regina Lexima, all natives of Haiti.
March 2, 1929.[[H. R. 12189](/us/bill/70/hr/12189).][[Public, No. 916](/us/pl/70/916).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That there isHaiti.Payment to, as compensation for death of Andre Nelson, and wounding of Marius Francois, and Regina Lexima. hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,070 to pay for the purposes herein provided the Republic of Haiti as an act of grace and without reference to the question of liability therefor; the sum of $1,000 thereof to pay Mane Rose Jean Baptiste, the mother of Andre Nelson; the sum of $50 thereof to pay Marius Francois; and the sum of $20 thereof to pay Regina Lexima; the above sums to be in full compensation for the killing of Andre Nelson and wounding of Marius Francois and Regina Lexima by shooting by an enlisted man of the United States Marine Corps on July 19, 1927, at Port au Prince, Republic of Flaiti.
Approved, March 2, 1929.
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