Chapter 460.
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CHAP. 460.— AN ACT for the relief of Helen M. Scholefield.August 7, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Helen M. Scholefield, administratrix of estate of C. M. Scholefield, deceased.Relief of. That there be paid, out of any moneys in the Treasury appropriated or hereafter to be appropriated to the payment of the Army to Helen M. Scholefield, administratrix of the estate of C. M. Scholefield, deceased, late an additional paymaster in the Army, the sum of five hundred and forty-four dollars and thirty- FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 460–463. 1882. 737 two cents, being the amount due to the said paymaster on the final settlement of his accounts, after deducting from the amount charged to him the sum of ten thousand dollars which stands to the debit of the said paymaster on the authority of an alleged voucher for that amount presented by Major J. Ledyard Hodge, late paymaster, and bearing date August tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the validity of which voucher the government has failed to establish in a suit brought and finally determined in the United States district court at Utica, New York, in April, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for the settlement of the accounts of the said Major C.
M. Scholefield, as such additional paymaster, with the government; and upon the payment of the said sum of five hundred and forty-four dollars and thirty-two cents, as herein provided, the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized to balance the accounts of the said Major C. M. Scholefield, as paymaster, with the government. Approved, August 7, 1882.