Chapter 282. for the relief of J
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CHAP. 282.— An Act for the relief of J. H. Duncan, postmaster at Elberton, Georgia.June 18, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,J. H. Duncan.Credit in account of. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place to the credit of the fund for the Post-Office Department, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, on money order account, the sum of ninety-eight dollars; and the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department is directed to place the like sum to the credit of J.
H. Duncan in his account as postmaster at Elberton, Georgia, it being the amount of surplus money-order funds mailed by said postmaster, July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for deposit with the postmaster at Atlanta, Georgia; said money having been burned and destroyed with the railroad care on the Georgia Railroad, on the twenty-fourth day of said month, while en route to Atlanta. Approved, June 18, 1878.