Volume 50
Public Law 75–159
Authorizing an appropriation for payment to the Government of the Dominican Republic for the account of Mercedes Martinez Viuda de Sanchez, a Dominican subject.
Approved May 6, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
Authorizing an appropriation for payment to the Government of the Dominican Republic for the account of Mercedes Martinez Viuda de Sanchez, a Dominican subject.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for payment to the Government of the Dominican Republic for the account of Mercedes Martinez Viuda de Sanchez, a Dominican subject, as a recognition by this Government of the meritorious services rendered by her late husband, Emeterio Sanchez, in rescuing certain members of the United States battleship Memphis on August 29, 1916, and to relieve her present financial condition, the sum of $500.
Approved, May 6, 1937.