Chapter 74. for the relief of William R
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CHAP. 74.— An Act for the relief of William R. Wilmer.Feb. 23, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,William R. Wilmer, relief. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, in adjusting the accounts of William It. Wilmer, late collector of internal revenue for the fifth district of Maryland, to credit him with the sum of one thousand eight hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty-four cents, that being the amount in value of internal-revenue stamps and cash of which the safe in his office was robbed by burglars on the night of the twenty-seventh of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and which have not been recovered: *Provided,**Proviso.* That it shall appear to the satisfaction of said Secretary that said Wilmer was robbed without any collusion or privity on his part.
Approved, February 23, 1881.