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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · May 4, 1878 · Chapter 93

Chapter 93. for the relief of Silas M

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CHAP. 93.— An Act for the relief of Silas M. Norton, postmaster at Bristol, Connecticut.May 4, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Silas M. Norton.Credit in account of. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, directed to place to the credit of the Post Office fund the sum of one hundred eighty-seven dollars and seventy cents; and the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department is hereby directed to credit Silas M.
Norton, one hundred eighty-seven dollars and seventy cents in his account as postmaster at Bristol, Connecticut, being the amount of money orders paid by him, and destroyed by fire when his office was burned April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. Approved, May 4, 1878.
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