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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 22 STAT. · Jan. 11, 1883 · Chapter 20

Chapter 20.

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CHAP. 20.— An act for the relief of Major Jacob E. Burbank.Jan. 11, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Jacob E. Burbank.Credit in accounts. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and are hereby, authorized, in the settlement of the accounts of Major Jacob E, Burbank, late paymaster United States Army, to allow him such credits for overpayments and for losses of funds and vouchers as they may deem just and reasonable, when recommended, under the authority of the Secretary of War, by the Paymaster-General: *Provided*, That said overpayments and losses shall not exceed two thousand dollars.
Approved, January 11, 1883.
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