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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 22 STAT. · Mar. 3, 1883 · Chapter 112

Chapter 112.

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CHAP. 112.— An act for the relief of Charles H. Tompkins, of the United States Army.Mar. 3, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Charles H. Tompkins.Relief of. That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the accounts of Charles H. Tompkins, a lieutenant-colonel and deputy quartermaster-general in the Army, for reimbursement of the moneys actually expended by him in providing himself with quarters and fuel while awaiting orders at San Francisco during a part of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four; and the necessary amount to pay any balance found due to the said Charles H.
Tompkins is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise *Proviso*.appropriated: *Provided*, That the said Tompkins, in the settlement of such accounts, shall not be credited with the amount of any actual expenditure in any one month, or part thereof, greater than was then and there expended by the United States in providing quarters and fuel for officers of like grade. Approved, March 3, 1883.
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