Chapter LXXVI. *for the Relief of James G
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Chap. LXXVI.— An Act *for the Relief of James G. Benton, E. B. Babbitt, and James Longstreet, United States Army.* June 1, 1858. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proper accounting officers $1,021.04 allowed, in settlement, to Lieutenant James G. Benton, $519.03 1-2 to Brevet Major E. B. Babbitt, and $448.98 to Brevet Major James Longstreet, amounts of which they were defrauded by Parker H.
French.of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, in settling the accounts of Lieutenant James G. Benton, of the Ordnance Department, of Brevet Major E. B. Babbitt, Chief Assistant Quartermaster, and of Brevet Major James Longstreet, Acting Commissary of Subsistence, to allow them, as credits, the respective amounts of which they were defrauded by Parker H. French, in San Antonio, Texas, in July, eighteen hundred and fifty, viz: to James G. Benton, one thousand and twenty-one dollars and four cents; to E.
B. Babbitt, five hundred and nineteen dollars ninety-three and a half cents; and to James Longstreet, four hundred and forty-eight dollars and ninety-eight cents. Approved, June 1, 1858.