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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · May 20, 1826 · Chapter CXVII

Chapter CXVII. for the relief of John Adams

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Chap. CXVII.— An Act for the relief of John Adams. May 20, 1826. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John Adams, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,Payment to him for a horse lost. the sum of sixty-five dollars, the value of a horse lost, by reason that the said John was dismounted, and separated from said horse, in the expedition into Canada, in the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, commanded by General Harrison. Approved, May 20, 1826.
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