Chapter CCCXCVII. for the Relief of Charles Hipp, of St
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CHAP. CCCXCVII.— An Act for the Relief of Charles Hipp, of St. Mary’s, Auglaize County, Ohio. June 8, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Payment to Charles Hipp. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Charles Hipp, postmaster at Saint Mary’s, Auglaize county, Ohio, the sum of two hundred and twenty-three dollars; one hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents of said sum being postage stamps on hand deposited with him as FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 397–399. 1872. 685 such postmaster for sale, and ninety-eight dollars and forty-two cents being cash on hand derived from the money-order business of said office; which was stolen on the night of the sixteenth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, by some person or persons unknown, who burglariously entered said office and forced an entrance into the iron safe in which said money was deposited, by blowing said safe open with gunpowder; and which said sum of money has been accounted for by said Hipp.
Approved, June 8, 1872.