Chapter XVIII. *for the Relief of Major Jeremiah Y
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Chap. XVIII.— An Act *for the Relief of Major Jeremiah Y. Dashiell, Paymaster in the United States Army.* April 21, 1858. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proper accounting offi-THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 19, 20, 21, 22. 1858. 529cers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed in settling the accounts of Major Jeremiah Y. Dashiell, paymaster in the United States army, to credit him in the sum of twenty-three thousand $23,116 to be credited Jeremiah Y.
Dashiell for money accidentally lost by him.one hundred and fifteen dollars, that being the amount of public money accidentally lost by him on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, in attempting to cross the bar of Indian River, Florida, for the purpose of paying the troops at Fort Capron, in that State. Approved, April 21, 1858.