Chapter XCVIII. for the Relief of Daniel O
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CHAP. XCVIII.— An Act for the Relief of Daniel O. Cleveland, Postmaster at Broadalbin, in the State of New York. Feb. 1, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Credits to be allowed Daniel O. Cleveland in settlement of accounts. That the auditor of the treasury for the Post-office Department be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to credit Daniel O. Cleveland, postmaster at Broadalbin, in the State of New York, in his account as such postmaster, with the sum of one hundred and forty dollars, being the value of postage stamps stolen from the safe of said post-office by burglars on the night of the eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, without fault or negligence on the part of said postmaster.
Sec. 2. That the proper accounting officer of the Treasury Department be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to credit the said Daniel O. Cleveland in his account for United States internal-revenue stamps with the sum of two hundred and thirteen dollars, being the amount and value of such revenue stamps stolen from said safe by burglars on the night aforesaid, without fault or negligence on the part of said Cleveland. Approved, February 1, 1873.