Chapter 117.
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CHAP. 117.—An act for the relief of William H. Thompson. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,William H. Thompson, credit in accounts. That William U, Thompson, late collector of internal revenue for the fifth collection district of the State of North Carolina, be relieved from the payment to the Government of the United States of the sum of two thousand seven hundred and nine dollars and sixty, which said sum of money came to the hands of said Thompson as taxes due the United States, but was forcibly taken from one of the deputies of the said collector by disguised robbers in the public highway while said deputy was on his way to make return thereof.
Sec. 2. That the said William H. Thompson have credit for the said amount of two thousand seven hundred and nine dollars and sixty cents in the payment of a judgement which has been lately rendered against him and the sureties upon his official bond as such collector in the United States district court at Greensborough, North Carolina, which said judgement was rendered upon a final accounting between the government and the said Thompson as collector of internal revenue for the said district, and in which judgement is included the said sum of two thousand seven hundred and nine dollars and sixty cents.
Sec. 3. That this act be in force from and after its ratification. Approved, March 2, 1881.