Chapter CCXXIV. *for the Relief of Edward P
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CHAP. CCXXIV.— An Act *for the Relief of Edward P. McKinney, of Binghamton, New York, late Captain and Assistant Commissary of Subsistence*. July 23, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United, States of America in Congress assembled*, Allowance to Edward P. McKinney of $475, upon his proving, &c. That the proper accounting officers of the War and Treasury Departments be, and they are hereby, authorized to allow to Edward P. McKinney, of Binghamton, New York, late captain and assistant commissary of subsistence, upon the settlement of his accounts, the sum of four hundred and seventy-five dollars, or so much thereof as the proof shall establish, upon his proving satisfactorily to such officers that such sum was properly paid by him prior to the thirteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to men of the first Rhode Island cavalry, and the first, second, and fifth United States cavalry regiments, and that his vouchers therefor were forcibly taken from him and destroyed by the enemy on the thirteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, between Harper’s Ferry and Winchester, Virginia, without the fault of the said Edward P.
McKinney. Approved, July 23, 1866.