Chapter CLXIV. for the relief of the heirs or representatives of widow Dupree
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Chap. CLXIV.— An Act for the relief of the heirs or representatives of widow Dupree. May 29, 1830. *Be it enacted, &c., * Payment for property destroyed. That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the heirs or representatives of widow Dupre, late of New Orleans, deceased, (on the presentation of satisfactory evidence of heirship, or of being executors or administrators,) out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight thousand nine hundred and ninetyfive dollars for the destruction and damage of her buildings, and for the destruction of her fences below New Orleans, during the late war, while her plantation was in the military occupation of the United States’ army; being the amount estimated for such destruction and damage by the Commissioners appointed for that purpose, by General Jackson.
Approved, May 29, 1830.