Chapter XX. *for the Relief of Thomas J
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Chap. XX.— An Act *for the Relief of Thomas J. Churchill, late a Lieutenant in the first Kentucky Regiment of Volunteers.* Jan. 26, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be and they are hereby authorized and directed, Settlement of accounts of Thos. J. Churchill.in settling the accounts of Thomas J. Churchill, late a lieutenant in the first Kentucky regiment of volunteers, and acting commissary and quartermaster during the war with Mexico, to allow him a credit in full for whatever amount may be charged against him upon the books of the Treasury Department, as such commissary and quartermaster, in the same manner' as if he had presented vouchers therefor, all his accounts and vouchers having been lost or destroyed during his imprisonment by the Mexicans in the year eighteen hundred and forty-seven.
Approved, January 26, 1857.