Chapter 177. for the relief of Dwight W
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CHAP. 177.— An Act for the relief of Dwight W. Hakes.June 10, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,D. W, Hakes.Settlement of accounts of. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury of the United States be, and hereby are, authorized to settle with Dwight W. Hakes, first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster of the Eighteenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, who was taken prisoner of war at the battle of Winchester, Virginia, June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and lost all his books, papers, funds, and vouchers, which fell into the hands of the enemy, upon such evidence or information as shall satisfy them that his claim is just.
Approved, June 10, 1878.