Chapter CCXC. *for the Relief of John Hastings, late Surveyor and Depository of Public Moneys at Pittsburg*
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CHAP. CCXC.— An Act *for the Relief of John Hastings, late Surveyor and Depository of Public Moneys at Pittsburg*. July 27, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Credit to be allowed John Hastings in settlement of accounts.1866, ch. 132. Vol. xiii. p. 599. That the act entitled, “An act for the relief of John Hastings, collector of the port of Pittsburg,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby authorized and directed, in adjusting the accounts of John Hastings as depository of public *monies* at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to give him credit for the sum of nine thousand, nine hundred and fifty-six dollars and sixty-two cents, the amount of public money of which he was robbed on the tenth day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, while acting in the aforesaid capacity. Approved, July 27, 1866.