Chapter LXXI. for the Relief of Mrs Pike, Widow of the late General Pike
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Chap. LXXI.— An Act for the Relief of Mrs Pike, Widow of the late General Pike. July 29, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Mrs. Zebulon M. Pike to be paid $3,000 for two years’ service of her husband in two exploring expeditions. That the sum of three thousand dollars, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid to Mrs. Zebulon Montgomery Pike, widow of the late General Pike, for compensation for two years’ extraordinary services in two exploring expeditions by the said General (then Lieutenant) Pike to the sources of the Mississippi, in eighteen hundred and five and eighteen hundred and six, and to the sources of the Arkansas and Great Platte, and through New Mexico, in eighteen hundred and six and eighteen hundred and seven.
Approved, July 29, 1846.