Chapter CVIII. for the Relief of Sluman S
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CHAP. CVIII.— An Act for the Relief of Sluman S. Bailey, Collector of internal Revenue for the fourth District of Michigan. April 17, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Credit to be allowed Sluman S. Bailey in the settlement of his accounts, for money stolen. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, in adjusting the accounts of Sluman S. Bailey, collector of internal revenue for the fourth district of Michigan, to credit him with the sum of one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars and twenty-three cents, that being the amount of money not recovered which was stolen from the safe of Leach and Bates, of Grand Traverse county, Michigan, on the night of September twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and which said money was deposited for safe-keeping therein by William H.
Fife, deputy-collector of internal revenue, and for which amount said collector Sluman S. Bailey is responsible Proviso.to the Treasury of the United States: *Provided,* That it shall then still appear that the theft of said money was without the collusion, privity, or fault of the said collector. Approved, April 17, 1872.