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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · Feb. 21, 1887 · Chapter 165

Chapter 165. for the relief of Harry Fisk

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CHAP. 165.— An Act for the relief of Harry Fisk.Feb. 21, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Harry Fisk.Credit to be allowed in accounts for postal funds stolen. That the Post-Master-General be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, in adjusting the accounts of Harry Fisk, postmaster at the city of Aurora, in the State of Indiana, as such postmaster, to allow him a credit of two hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty cents for postal funds stolen from said Harry Fisk by burglars at said post-office on the night of the twenty-third day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, without any negligence or default on the part of the said postmaster.
Approved, February 21, 1887.
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