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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · July 14, 1870 · Chapter CCLXXIX

Chapter CCLXXIX. for the Relief of J

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CHAP. CCLXXIX.— An Act for the Relief of J. Alden Rathbun, Postmaster of Mystic Bridge, Connecticut.July 14, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there be paid to J. AldenPayment to J. Alden Rathbun. Rathbun, postmaster of Mystic Bridge, Connecticut, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and sixty-five dollars, the amount of postal stamps deposited for safety in the First National Bank of Mystic Bridge, and stolen therefrom by burglars on the night of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, without fault or negligence on the part of said postmaster, and which he has accounted for to the proper accounting officers of the treasury.
Approved, July 14, 1870.
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