Chapter V. for the Relief of Lawrence L
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CHAP. V.— An Act for the Relief of Lawrence L. Merry Collector of internal Revenue for the twentieth District of New York.Dec. 20, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of theCredit to be allowed Lawrence L. Merry in the settlement of his accounts. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, in adjusting the accounts of Lawrence L. Merry, collector of internal revenue for the twentieth district of New York, to credit him with the sum of three thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-three cents, the amount of revenue stamps stolen from the American Express Company’s safe and from the post-office at Ilion, Herkimer county, New York, on the night of the ninth of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for which amount said collector is responsible to the treasury of the United States: *Provided,*Proviso.
That it shall then still appear that the theft of said stamps was without the collusion, privity, or fault of the said collector. Approved, December 20, 1870.