Chapter XV. for the Relief of Major Benjamin Alvord, Paymaster United States Army
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Chap. XV.— An Act for the Relief of Major Benjamin Alvord, Paymaster United States Army.January 23, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedBenjamin Alvord to be credited with $14,000 public money lost. States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, in settling the accounts of Major Benjamin Alvord, paymaster United States army, to credit him in the sum of fourteen thousand dollars, that being the amount of public money for which he was accountable, lost by the shipwreck of the steamship Northerner, on the fifth January, eighteen hundred and sixty, near Cape Mendocino, California, it having been forwarded to him at Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory, per said vessel, by the assistant quartermaster at San Francisco.
Approved, January 23, 1861.