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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · March 3, 1885 · Chapter 397

Chapter 397. for the relief of John F

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CHAP. 397.— An Act for the relief of John F. SeveranceMarch 3, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,John F. Severance, postmaster.Belief of, for loss by robbery.Appropriation. That there be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighty-five dollars, to be placed to the credit of the Post-Office Department; and the proper accounting officers of the Post-Office Depart- 677ment are hereby directed to credit John F.
Severance, of Shelburne, Massachusetts, in his account as postmaster with the same, it being for loss by robbery of his post-office on the night of the nineteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, but without fault or neglect on the part of said postmaster. Approved, March 3, 1885.
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