Chapter CDXLVIII. for the Relief of W
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CHAP. CDXLVIII.— An Act for the Relief of W. T. Bowers. June 10, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Credit to be allowed W. T. Bowers in settlement of accounts. That the proper accounting officer of the Post-office Department is hereby authorized and directed to credit W. T. Bowers, postmaster at Liberty, Union county, Indiana, with the sum of thirty dollars on his account as postmaster, as aforesaid, with said department; said sum being the amount of postage-stamps stolen from said post-office on the twenty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, while the building in which said office was kept was threatened with destruction by fire.
Approved, June 10, 1872.