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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · July 27, 1854 · Chapter CXXI

Chapter CXXI. *for the Relief of A

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Chap. CXXI.— An Act *for the Relief of A. G. Bennett.* July 27, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proper accounting A. G. Bennett to be paid the money proved to be lost by him by the burning of the Volante.officers of the Treasury Department, in settling the accounts of Albert G. Bennett, paymaster in the United States army, be, and they are hereby, authorized and instructed to allow him credit for whatever sum of money he may prove, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, to have been lost by him by the burning of the steamboat Volante, between Vicksburg and Yazoo City, on the fifteenth of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-three: *Provided,* The amount shall not exceed the sum of twelve hundred and eighty-one dollars and eighty cents.
Approved, July 27, 1854.
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