Chapter 138.
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CHAP. 138.— AN ACT for the relief of William F. Wheeler.March 1, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,W. F. Wheeler.Credit in accounts. That the proper accounting- officers of the Treasury, in adjusting accounts for expenses of courts ren- FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. in. Ch. 138–142. 1879. 606 dered by William F. Wheeler, United States marshal for the Territory of Montana, be, and they are hereby, authorized to allow credit for the amount of vouchers for disbursements destroyed by fire in the office of said marshal, at Helena, on the ninth of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-four; said allowance not to exceed the sum of five thousand five hundred and eighty-two dollars : *Provided,* That before credit be given, the marshal shall furnish proof of his losses to the satisfaction of said accounting-officers.
Approved, March 1, 1879.