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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · March 3, 1823 · Chapter XCIX

Chapter XCIX. for the relief of the heirs of Joseph Wilcox

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Chap. XCIX.— An Act for the relief of the heirs of Joseph Wilcox. March 3, 1823. *Be it enacted, &c., * 400 dollars to be paid to his heirs. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred dollars to the legal heirs of the late Joseph Wilcox, deceased; it being for the passage of George A. Hughes, bearer of the Louisiana treaty from Havre, in France, to the city of New York, in the year one thousand eight hundred and three, in the brig Enterprize, owned by the said Wilcox. Approved, March 3, 1823.
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