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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 21 STAT. · May 26, 1880 · Chapter 104

Chapter 104. to relieve John D

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CHAP. 104.— An Act to relieve John D. Defrees, Public Printer.May 26, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,John D. Defrees, relief of. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to allow John D. Defrees, Public Printer, in the settlement of his accounts with the Treasury Department the sum of nine thousand eight hundred and thirteen dollars, being the sum taken by robbers from the safe of the Government Printing Office on the second day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, for which they stand indicted in the criminal court for the District of Columbia.
This act to be in force from and after its passage. Approved, May 26, 1880.
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