Chapter XLIX. *for the Relief of the Administrators and Securities of Almon W
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CHAP. XLIX.— An Act *for the Relief of the Administrators and Securities of Almon W. Babbitt, late Secretary of Utah*. April 17, 1866. Whereas Almon W. Babbitt, as secretary of the Territory of Utah,Preamble. in the summer of eighteen hundred and fifty-six, had advanced to him by the Treasury Department, at the city of Washington, twenty-six thousand and five hundred dollars; that a portion of this sura was properly expended by him in the purchase of stationery, carpeting, and other property for the offices of the Territory, and in the purchase of oxen and wagons to transport the Baid property, together with a quantity of books, belonging to the Territory, from Council Bluffs to Salt Lake City; and while upon the route, not far from Fort Kearney, the said Babbitt and most of the men with him were murdered, the teams taken, and property destroyed by Indians; and whereas there is now standing against said Babbitt upon the books of the Treasury Department a balance of twelve thousand and nine hundred and seventy-two dollars; and it is satisfactorily proven that the property destroyed by said Indians amounted in value to a sum larger than said balance:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the administrators, heirs,Administrators, &c., of Almon W. Babbitt released. and securities of said Babbitt be, and they are hereby, released and discharged from the payment of said balance, and from all liability on account of the same and of said moneys received from the Treasury Depart-ment, as aforesaid. Approved, April 17, 1866.