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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · May 22, 1798 · Chapter XLV

Chapter XLV. for the relief of Joseph Nourse

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Chap. XLV.— An Act for the relief of Joseph Nourse. May 22, 1798. *Be it enacted, &c., * That there be paid to Joseph Nourse, RegisterIndemnity to Joseph Nourse. of the Treasury, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury of the United States, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, to indemnify him for the extra expense incurred by him in removing his family from Philadelphia, in the years one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, to avoid the epidemic fever; and the extra expense incurred by him in attending to the business of his office during the same periods. Approved, May 22, 1798.
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