Chapter VII. for the Relief of Orlando Brown
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CHAP. VII.— An Act for the Relief of Orlando Brown.April 1, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, inAccounts of Orlando Brown to be settled. the examination and settlement of the property and money accounts of Orlando Brown, late captain and assistant quartermaster United States army, to credit and allow him all expenditures of money and property made by him in good faith under the orders, or in conformity with orders, of his superior officers; and especially all expenditures of quartermasters’ property made by him for the benefit of freedmen, under the orders of Major-General Benjamin F.
Butler, in like manner as if the same had been regularly expended in the quartermasters’ department. Approved, April 1, 1869.