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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · Feb. 22, 1838 · Chapter XI

Chapter XI. *for the relief of the legal representatives of John McCarty, deceased.* Feb. 22, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c.*, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the legal representatives of John McCarty, deceased, out of any money inPayment for a house destroyed. the treasury not otherwise appropriated, one

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Chap. XI.— An Act *for the relief of the legal representatives of John McCarty, deceased.* Feb. 22, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c.*, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the legal representatives of John McCarty, deceased, out of any money inPayment for a house destroyed. the treasury not otherwise appropriated, one thousand dollars, in full payment for his house, burnt by the enemy, at Farnham, Virginia, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, in consequence of said house having been occupied as a place of deposite for military stores and am-munition during the late war. Approved, February 22, 1838.
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