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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · Feb. 4, 1873 · Chapter CIV

Chapter CIV. for the Relief of H

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CHAP. CIV.— An Act for the Relief of H. H. Meredith, late Postmaster at Wade, Bedford County, Virginia. Feb. 4, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Amount not to be collected of H. H. Meredith. That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, directed not to collect of H. H. Meredith, late postmaster at Wade, Bedford county, Virginia, any balance due from him on account of money and stamps which were taken from the post-office at said place by burglars on the night of the twentieth of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Approved, February 4, 1873.
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