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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · July 1, 1790 · Chapter XXIII

Chapter XXIII. to satisfy the claims of John McCord against the United States

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Chap. XXIII.— An Act to satisfy the claims of John McCord against the United States. July 1, 1790. *Be it enacted, &c., * Payment to John McCord, in full of all claims. That there be paid to John McCord, out of the duties arising on impost and tonnage, the sum of eight hundred nine dollars seventy-one cents, being the amount of his account against the United States, as settled and admitted by the Auditor and Comptroller of the Treasury, on a bill of exchange dated the fifth of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, drawn in Canada for supplies, by General William Thompson, General William Irvine and other officers, in favor of William Pagan, on Messieurs Meredith and Clymer of Philadelphia;
And the farther sum of five hundred 2 FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch . 24, 37, 44. 1790. 3 dollars, in full of all his claims and demands against the United States, as well for lands and rations granted by several resolutions of Congress to Canadian sufferers, as on any other account whatsoever. Approved, July 1, 1790.
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