Chapter CCCLV. *to relieve Francis E
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CHAP. CCCLV.— An Act *to relieve Francis E. Spinner, Treasurer of the United States.* March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the proper accounting officers Allowance to Francis E. Spinner in settlement forbe, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to allow Francis E. Spinner, treasurer of the United States, in the settlement of his general account of receipts and expenditures tor the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, the sum of two hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy cents, being the amount paid by him for certain mutilated, partially destroyed, and defective compound-interest, five per centum, and national bank notes, namely: *Compound-Interest Notes.—*Part of note, no number, paid in full by compound-interest notes.order of the treasurer, fifty dollars; one-half of note, numbered two hundred and twenty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, B, dated 768 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Cn. 356, 357. 1873. Allowance to Francis E. Spinner in settlement forMay fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, affidavit of destruction of missing part attached, paid by order of the treasurer, fifty-nine dollars and seventy cents; one note, no seal, date or number, face value paid, ten dollars; one mutilated note, numbered ninety-one thousand two hundred and sixty-five, affidavit attached, ten dollars; five notes of ten dollars each, no seal, date, or number, fifty dollars; one note, numbered twenty-three thousand five hundred and forty-five, no seal or date, twenty dollars. five per centum notes; *Five per centum Notes.—*One note, no seal, date, or number, supposed one of four stolen from printing bureau, paid by order of the Secretary of the Treasury, twenty-one dollars; a part of note, numbered one hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred and fifty-three, dated May four teenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, two-thirds of note burned and missing, and affidavit attached of the destruction of missing part, twenty-one dollars. for national bank notes; *National Bank Notes.—*One note of Rockport National Bank, Massachusetts, appears to have been one of a sheet stolen from printing bureau, paid by order of the Secretary of the Treasury, June twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, ten dollars; in all, two hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy cents. for losses through embezzlement by Seth Johnson;
Sec. 2. That the sum of sixty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty-two cents, lawful money, be, and it hereby is, appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to reimburse Francis E. Spinner for losses incurred in his office as treas urer of the United States, through embezzlement on the part of employees and otherwise, without negligence or fault on his part, namely: Loss by the embezzlement of Seth Johnson, late interest-teller, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and ninety-four dollars and twenty cents; loss by the F.
A. Marden.embezzlement of F. A. Marden, late chief of division of accounts, eleven thousand four hundred and thirteen dollars and ninety-seven cents; part of a package of new notes stolen from the division of issues, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; amount found short in an actual count of one hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars, specimen currency, seventy-one dollars & seventy-seven cents; amount found short in an actual count of the paying teller’s cash, twenty cents; amount found short in an actual count of a package of new notes, one dollar; amount found short in an actual count of a package of new notes, temporarily made good by the original counter, twenty dollars; amount found short in an actual count of the funds of the redemption division, one hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty-seven cents; amount found short in an actual count of the funds of the cash division, one hundred and forty-two dollars and one cent; in all, sixty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty-two cents.
Approved, March 3, 1873.