Chapter CXXVII. to reimburse George S
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CHAP. CXXVII.— An Act to reimburse George S. Fisher for Losses sustained in the Building and Burning up of the Consulate of the United States at Kanagawa, Japan, November twenty sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Feb. 11, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the DepartmentLosses of George S. Fisher, a consul, to be audited; of State be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered to audit the losses sustained by George S.
Fisher while consul of the United States at Kanagawa, Japan, for the destruction of any public moneys for which he has accounted to the United States, not exceeding the amount of one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars, in value of Mexican dollars, lost and destroyed by the burning of the new consulate building at his post of duty by the same fire of November twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorizedand paid. to pay the sum so audited by the Secretary of the Department of State out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, not 728 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 128–130. 1873. exceeding the sum stated in section one of this act, on the warrant of the Secretary of the Department of State drawn therefor. Approved, February 11, 1873.