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Volume 21

Private Law 46–259

for the relief of Amanda M. Cook.

Approved June 16, 1880

Statutory text

An Act

for the relief of Amanda M. Cook.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to deduct, from any annuities due or to become due to the Cheyenne or Arapahoe Indians, the sum of two thousand dollars, and pay the same to Amanda M. Cook, formerly Amanda M Fletcher, whose mother was killed and herself captured by the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians, in the Territory of Wyoming, in August, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, while en route from the State of Illinois to California.

Approved, June 16, 1880.

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