Chapter 158. for the relief of John Clinton, postmaster at Brownsville, Tennessee
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CHAP. 158.— An Act for the relief of John Clinton, postmaster at Brownsville, Tennessee.June 06, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,John Clinton.Credit in money order account. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place to the credit of the Post-Office fund on money-order account the sum of two 538 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 158, 159, 163, 164, 165, 166. 1878. hundred and sixty-five dollars and thirty-seven cents; and that the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department is hereby directed to credit John Clinton, of Brownsville, Tennessee, in his account as postmaster, with the said sum of two hundred and sixty-five dollars and thirty-seven cents, being for money-order funds stolen from the post-office at Brownsville, Tennessee, while said John Clinton was postmaster, but without fault or negligence on his part.
Approved, June 6, 1878.