Chapter VI. for the Relief of Lieutenant George L
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Chap. VI.— An Act for the Relief of Lieutenant George L. Hartsuff, United States Army.January 5, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be,$380 to be paid to George L. Hartsuff for public funds lost by accident. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Lieutenant George L. Hartsuff, acting assistant commissary of subsistence, United States Army, the sum of three hundred and eighty dollars, lost by wreck of steamer “Lady Elgin,” it being the amount of public funds he had in his possession while travelling under orders on board of said steamer, in the month of September, eighteen hundred and sixty, which sum he subsequently paid over to his successor, in order to balance his accounts on the books of the Treasury Department.
Approved, January 5, 1861.