Chapter 236. for the relief of J
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CHAP. 236.— An Act for the relief of J. R. Martin.Feb. 23, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,J. R. Martin.Accounts to be credited for postal moneys stolen. That the Postmaster-General of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to credit the account of J. II. Martin, late postmaster at Perry, Kansas, with the sum of one hundred and twenty-live dollars and sixty-two cents, on account of moneys received from the sale of postage-stamps and the rent of boxes, and the further sum of two hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-five cents, on account of moneys received from the sale of money-orders; the above amounts having been stolen from the safe in in the post-office at Perry, Kansas, on the night of December twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-three.
Approved, February 23, 1887.