Chapter 395. for the benefit of John C
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CHAP. 395.— An Act for the benefit of John C. Herndon.March 3, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,John C. Herndon.Payment to, for hay lost.Appropriation. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to John C. Herndon, late of Mason County, now of Louisville, Kentucky, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars, in full compensation for one hundred and five thousand pounds of hay furnished, under verbal contract, to Captain D.
W. McClung, assistant quartermaster, United States volunteers, for the use the Government of the United States, in March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and which was swept away by a flood in the Ohio River and lost in consequence of the failure of the Government to remove said hay after due notice had been given to its authorized agents so to do. Approved, March 3d, 1885.