Chapter CXXX. directing the Payment to Robert McKee of Pay, Allowances, and Bounty now withheld from him
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CHAP. CXXX.— An Act directing the Payment to Robert McKee of Pay, Allowances, and Bounty now withheld from him. Feb. 11, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Payment to Robert McKee. That a sum of money be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Robert McKee, late a private in company F, forty-third Wisconsin volunteer infantry, equal in amount to the pay, allowances, and bounty to which said McKee would have been entitled had he been on active duty the whole time he was borne on the rolls of said company, said pay, allowances, and bounty being now withheld from him upon an erroneous allegation of fraud in procuring his enlistment into, and retention in, the military service of the United States; said sum to be ascertained and adjusted by the Second Auditor of the Treasury.
J. G. BLAINE, *Speaker of the House of Representatives.* SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate.* Received by the President January 30, 1873. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 134, 139–141. 1873. 729 and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]