Chapter CCCVIII. for the Relief of Major F
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CHAP. CCCVIII.— An Act for the Relief of Major F. F. Stevens, Assistant Paymaster United States Army.July 27, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proper accountingMajor F. F. Stevens to be credited with, &c. in settlement of account. officers of the paymaster-general’s office and the Treasury Department in the settlement of the accounts of Major F. F. Stevens, late an assistant paymaster of the United States army, credit to him the sum of three thousand and seventy-eight dollars and sixty-three cents, as of the first April, A.
D. eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, for the cause that that amount of public money in his hands on that day was lost by the burning of the steamer Alabama, on the Mississippi River: *Provided,* That in theProviso. opinion of said accounting officers the said allowance should be made. Approved, July 27, 1868.