Chapter 136.
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CHAP. 136.— AN ACT granting relief to John T. Neale, an employee of the Provost-Marshal-General's Department in eighteen hundred and sixty-one, for injuries sustained in the line of his duties.March 1, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,J. T. Neale.Payment to. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay unto John T. Neale, late an employee of Brigadier-General Andrew Porter, provost-marshal of the District of Columbia, (by whom said John T.
Neale was assigned to duty as a special detective police-officer, and sustained an injury while engaged in said service, which resulted in making him a cripple for life,) out of any moneys in the public treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal in amount to that which he would have been entitled to had said John T. Neale been an enlisted man in the Army, for a permanent specific disability, to wit, the loss of one leg below the knee-joint; and that said amount be computed in accordance with the present allowance for such disability, to date from the eleventh day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
Approved, March 1, 1879.