Chapter 31. for the relief of Edwin A
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CHAP. 31.— An Act for the relief of Edwin A. Clifford.March 11, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Edwin A. Clifford,Credit allowed to. That the proper accounting-officers of the Post-Office Department be, and are hereby, authorized and directed to credit Edwin A. Clifford, postmaster at Evanston, Illinois, in his accounts as such postmaster, the sum of six hundred and forty-five dollars and eight cents, being the value of postage-stamps, postage, and money-order funds stolen from the safe in the vault of the post-office at Evanston, Illinois, on the night of February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, without any fault or negligence on the part of said postmaster.
Approved, March 11, 1878.