Chapter 19. for the relief of Grafton Monroe
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CHAP. 19.— An Act for the relief of Grafton Monroe.Jan. 3, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Grafton Monroe.To be allowed credit for postage-stamps and money order funds stolen. That the Auditor of the Treasury for the post Office Department be, and he is hereby, directed, in adjusting the accounts of Grafton Monroe, late postmaster at Annapolis, Maryland, to credit him, the said Grafton Monroe, in his accounts as such postmaster, with four thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars and thirteen cents, the same being for postage stamps and money order funds burglariously stolen from the post-office at Annapolis, Maryland, on the morning of February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, 884 said credit being recommended by the then Postmaster-General, after a full investigation of all the circumstances attending said burglary: *Provided,**Proviso*.
That it shall be proven to the satisfaction of said Auditor that said postage stamps and money-order funds were lost as aforesaid with-out fault or negligence upon the part of said postmaster. Sec. 2. That the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office DepartmentTo he allowed credit for postal fund stolen. be, and he is hereby, directed, in adjusting the accounts of Grafton Monroe, late postmaster at Annapolis, Maryland, to credit him, the said Grafton Monroe, in his accounts as such postmaster, with two thousand four hundred and thirty dollars, the same being for postal funds burglariously stolen from the post-office at Annapolis, Maryland, on the *Proviso*.morning of February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four: *Provided,* That it shall be proven to the satisfaction of said Auditor that said postal funds were lost as aforesaid without fault or negligence upon the part of said postmaster.
Approved, January 3, 1887.