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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · Feb. 14, 1873 · Chapter CXLII

Chapter CXLII. for the Relief of Paymaster George F

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CHAP. CXLII.— An Act for the Relief of Paymaster George F. Cutter. Feb. 14, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Credit to be allowed paymaster George F. Cutter. That the accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized to credit George F. Cutter, paymaster in the United States navy, with the sum of two hundred and fifty-four dollars in coin, now checked against him on the books of that Department, being the amount stolen from the funds of the United States, on board the ship Piscataqua, in the harbor of Yokahama, Japan, in September, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
Approved, February 14, 1873.
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