Chapter CIII. for the Relief of Captain Brice X
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CHAP. CIII.— An Act for the Relief of Captain Brice X. Blair, Postmaster at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Feb. 4, 1873. Whereas the post-office at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, was broken intoPreamble. on the night of October twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and the safe therein blown open and postage stamps stolen therefrom to the amount of three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty-eight cents, without any fault or neglect of the postmaster: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Postmaster-General be,Credit to be allowed Brice X.
Blair, in settlement of accounts. and he is hereby, authorized and directed, in the settlement of the accounts of Brice X. Blair, postmaster at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, to allow him a credit for the sum of three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty- 724 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 104, 106–110. 1873. eight cents, the amount of postage stamps stolen from his safe on the night of October twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy. Approved, February 4, 1873.