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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · July 2, 1836 · Chapter CCCXXXIX

Chapter CCCXXXIX. *to provide for the settlement of the claim of Mary O

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Chap. CCCXXXIX.— An Act *to provide for the settlement of the claim of Mary O. Sullivan.* July 2, 1836. *Be it enacted, &c.*, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the claim of Mary O’Sullivan,Claim for loss by detention of vessel, to be paid. widow and executrix of John O’Sullivan, deceased, to be examined by the proper accounting officers of the treasury; and that there be allowed and paid to the said Mary O’Sullivan, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of actual loss which may be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury to have been sustained by the said John O’Sullivan, in consequence of the act of the late John M.
Forbes, commercial and political agent of the United States of America at Buenos Ayres, in detaining the vessel of the said O’Sullivan, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and causing her to be sent to the United States. Approved, July 2, 1836. Chapter CCCXL: for the relief of Robert Abbott, and the other heirs of James Abbott, deceased. 6 Stat. 679 1836-07-02 Chapter CCCXL Charles C. Little and James Brown 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.
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