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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · April 16, 1872 · Chapter CI

Chapter CI. for the Relief of F

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CHAP. CI.— An Act for the Relief of F. B. Brayton. April 16, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Postmaster General beCredit to be allowed F. B. Brayton. and hereby is, authorized and directed to credit (as of the twenty-fourth day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight) to F. B. Brayton, postmaster of Mount Morris, Ogle county, in the State of Illinois, the sum of three hundred and fifteen dollars, in consideration of the loss of that amount in postage-stamps robbed from his post-office in Mount Morris, without his fault or negligence. Approved, April 16, 1872.
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