Chapter XLVIII. for the Relief of Francis A
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CHAP. XLVIII.— An Act for the Relief of Francis A. Eastman, Postmaster at Chicago, Illinois. March 12, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Accounts of Francis A. Eastman, postmaster at Chicago, to be settled and certain credits allowed. That the proper accounting officers of the Post-office Department be, and they are hereby, authorized to settle the accounts of Francis A. Eastman, postmaster at Chicago, and to credit him with so much of the amount of the postal receipts of said office, including money received for postage stamps and stamped envelopes sold up to the eighth day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as was on hand and destroyed by fire in the safe of the government in said post-office the said ninth of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-one; and said accounting officers are also authorized to credit the said postmaster, upon his money-order account, with the amount of money-orders paid by him during the week ending October seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and which were destroyed by the fire aforesaid in the safe of said post-office: *Provided* said credits shall be made to such amounts only as the Postmaster General shall be satisfied from the proofs furnished him will cover the losses actually incurred.
Approved, March 12, 1872.