Chapter 596. for the relief of E
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CHAP. 596.— An Act for the relief of E. J. Phillips.June 30, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,E. J. Phillips.Allowance to, for stamps and postal funds stolen. That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to settle and adjust the accounts of E. J. Phillips, postmaster at Oberlin, Ohio, and credit him in said settlement with the sum of two thousand one hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-nine cents, the same being for United States postage-stamps of the value of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-four cents, and money-order funds amounting to two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twenty-five cents, lost by a burglary, without any fault or negligence of the postmaster.
Approved, June 30, 1886.