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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 9 STAT. · May 31, 1848 · Chapter LVIII

Chapter LVIII. for the Relief of Samuel W

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Chap. LVIII.— An Act for the Relief of Samuel W. Bell, a Native of the Cherokee Nation. May 31, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, The Secretary of War to pay Samuel W. Bell the amount of his expenses incurred in going to and returning from Florida in 1837. That the Secretary of War pay to Samuel W. Bell, a native of the Cherokee nation of Indians, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, his expenses incurred in going to and returning from Florida, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and such daily pay for the time he was engaged on such mission, up to the time of his return to the Cherokee nation, as was paid to Richard Fields for similar services.
Approved, May 31, 1848.
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