Chapter LXXV. for the Relief of General John C
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CHAP. LXXV.— An Act for the Relief of General John C. McQuiston and Jeremiah D. Skeen, of Indiana.Feb. 27, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of thePayment to John C. McQuiston and Jeremiah D. Skeen. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to John C. McQuiston and Jeremiah D. Skeen, of Indiana, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollars, to reimburse them for expense incurred in satisfaction of a judgment recovered against them in the Ripley circuit court in favor of Jerome Huntington, upon a charge of false imprisonment, founded upon an arrest made by the said John C.
McQuiston as provost marshal of the fourth district of Indiana, and Jeremiah D. Skeen, his deputy, while acting under the order of General Baker, the provost marshal of the State of Indiana, and Brigadier-General Wilcox. Approved, February 27, 1871.