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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · July 7, 1838 · Chapter CCIII

Chapter CCIII. *for the relief of William A

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Chap. CCIII.— An Act *for the relief of William A. Whitehead.*July 7, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury creditTo be credited with expenses for light-house at Cape Florida. fifty dollars on the account of William A. Whitehead, collector of the customs at Key West, and superintendent of light-houses within his district, he having necessarily expended that sum in reestablishing a light in the light-house at Cape Florida, in January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, after the said house was abandoned by the keeper on account of Indian hostilities. Approved, July 7, 1838.
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