Chapter XVI. for the Relief of the legal Representatives of Seneca G
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Chap. XVI.— An Act for the Relief of the legal Representatives of Seneca G. Simmons.January 31, 1863. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proper accountingRepresentatives of Seneca G. Simmons to be allowed $1500. officers of the Treasury Department, in settling the accounts of the late Seneca G. Simmons, as assistant commissary of subsistence, be, and hereby are, authorized and instructed to allow his legal representatives credit for the sum of money belonging to the United States stolen from his possession at Matamoras, Mexico, on the night of the eleventh of April, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, to wit: fifteen hundred dollars.
Approved, January 31, 1863.