Chapter XXVI. for the relief of Catharine Stearns
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Chap. XXVI.— An Act for the relief of Catharine Stearns. April 3, 1828. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of To be paid the estimated value of her dower in a certain parcel of land.any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Catharine Stearns, the sum of eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-four cents, the estimated value of her dower in about three acres of land in the navy-yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, on her relinquishing to the United States all her right of dower in said land, by deed, in all things executed in conformity to the laws of Massachusetts. Approved, April 3, 1828.