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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · March 1, 1879 · Chapter 141

Chapter 141.

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CHAP. 141.— AN ACT for the relief of Henry M. Meade, late paymaster in the United States Navy.March 1, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,H. M. Meade.Credit in accounts. That the accounting-officers of the United States Treasury Department be, and are hereby, authorized to adjust the accounts of Henry M. Meade, late a paymaster in the United States Navy, and credit him with the sum of twenty-five hundred and forty-five dollars and twenty-two cents, for unavoidable losses and checkages sustained by him in the legitimate performance of his duties as paymaster in the United States Navy, from eighteen hundred and sixty-two to eighteen hundred and seventy-two, which sum stands now charged against him at the United States Treasury Department.
Approved, March 1, 1879.
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