Chapter CVI. for the Relief of Lieutenant Ulysses S
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Chap. CVI.— An Act for the Relief of Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant.June 17, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedAllowance of $1000, lost by theft, to be made in settling accounts of Ulysses S. Grant. States of America in Congress assembled,* That, in the settlement of the accounts with the treasury of Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant, as commissary and regimental quartermaster, fourth infantry, there shall be allowed to the said Grant the sum of one thousand dollars, on account of the loss of that amount of public funds in his hands by theft on the night of the sixteenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, the loss being without neglect or fault on the part of said Grant.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That, if the accounts of the saidIf accounts are settled, &c. then $1000 to be paid Grant. Grant have been fully settled at the proper accounting office of the treasury, and the said amount of one thousand dollars accounted for, then and in that case there shall be paid to said Grant the sum of one thousand dollars out of any money not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 17, 1862.