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Private Law 16–CCXLI

for the relief of the heirs of William Forbes, deceased.

Approved July 1, 1836

Statutory text

An Act

for the relief of the heirs of William Forbes, deceased.

Be it enacted, &c.,

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is

Payment for property destroyed.

hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to Gordon Forbes, John A. Parker, and Robert M. Forbes, (heirs at law of William Forbes, deceased,) two thousand one hundred dollars, for certain houses belonging to them, which were destroyed at Kinsale, in Virginia, by the enemy in the late war with Great Britain.

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