Chapter 56. to authorize the accounting officers of the Treasury to settle the accounts of Brevet Major General Edward Hatch, United States Army, chairman and disbursing officer of the special Ute Commission appointed under act of Congress of May third, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight
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CHAP. 56.— An Act to authorize the accounting officers of the Treasury to settle the accounts of Brevet Major General Edward Hatch, United States Army, chairman and disbursing officer of the special Ute Commission appointed under act of Congress of May third, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.Mar. 31, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Edward Hatch.Credit in accounts. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, in the settlement of the accounts of Brevet Major General Edward Hatch, United States Army, chairman and disbursing officer of the special Ute Commission appointed under act of Congress [20 Stat., 48](/us/stat/t20/s48).of May third, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, are hereby authorized to adjust and settle the same upon the principles of equity and justice, and to award to him credit for disbursements as appear to have been honestly made in good faith and to have inured to the benefit of the Indians or the United States.
Approved, March 31, 1882.