Act for Relief of Duck Valley Settlers 
			    Cecilia E. Brown, geni@rmci.net
				    Sept 19, 2000


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Taken from "The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from December, 1883, to 
March, 1885, and Recent Treaties, Postal Conventions, and Executive Proclamations;" Edited, 
Printed, and Published Under the Authority of an Act of Congress, and Under The Direction 
of the Secretary of State; Volume XXIII; Washington, The Government Printing Office; 1885.

Page 677:

CHAP. 399.
-An act for the relief of certain settlers on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Nevada.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
in Congress assembled,  That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized 
and directed, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the 
settlers on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, in Nevada, the sum of five thousand four 
hundred dollars, as follows, namely:  To Levi Harris, three thousand five hundred dollars; 
to William Harris, two hundred dollars; to Henry Boyle, one thousand five hundred dollars; 
and to J. H. Babb, two hundred dollars, in full for their improvements on said reservation.
     Approved, March 3, 1885.