Chapter CLXII. for the Relief of John Miller
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CHAP. CLXII.— An Act for the Relief of John Miller. Feb. 18, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Credit to be allowed John Miller. That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, directed to allow John Miller, postmaster at Newark, Delaware, credit for such sum of money, not exceeding one hundred and sixty-five dollars, as shall cover the amount of paid money-orders, and of money-order and postal funds, which shall appear to the Postmaster- General, upon evidence satisfactory to him, to have been destroyed by the burning of the office of said postmaster, on the twenty-first of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.
Approved, February 18, 1873.