Chapter CLI. for the Relief of Robert Williams, Jr., Collector third District, Ohio
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CHAP. CLI.— An Act for the Relief of Robert Williams, Jr., Collector third District, Ohio. May 9, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Allowance to Robert Williams, Jr., in settlement of his accounts. That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be authorized and directed, in settling the accounts of Robert Williams, Jr., collector of internal revenue, third district, Ohio, to credit and allow to him such sum as they shall find was stolen from his safe in beer, cigar, and internal-revenue stamps, by burglars, on the night Provisos.of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine: *Provided,* That there shall first be deducted from said sum so stolen the amount recovered by said Robert Williams, Jr., and that nothing shall be allowed for expenses in recovering the same: *And provided further,* That such accounting officers shall be satisfied, by competent testimony, that all such stamps were stolen without any default or negligence on the part of said Williams or his agents.
Approved, May 9, 1872.