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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · June 14, 1878 · Chapter 203

Chapter 203. for the relief of John I Thomas

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CHAP. 203.— An Act for the relief of John I Thomas.June 14, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,J. I. Thomas.Credit in accounts of. That the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department is hereby directed to credit John I. Thomae, postmaster at Hancock, in Washington County, Maryland, in his account as such postmaster, with the sum of twelve dollars, being surplus money-order funds mailed by him to the postmaster at Baltimore, Maryland, and burned together with the mail-car en route on the night of the seventh of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, at Benning’s Station, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, between Washington and Baltimore.
Approved, June 14, 1878.
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