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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · August 4, 1886 · Chapter 904

Chapter 904.

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CHAP. 904.— An act for the relief of William J. Smith, late surveyor of customs for the port of Memphis, State of Tennessee.August 4, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,William J. Smith. That in the settlement of the accounts of William J. Smith, formerly surveyor of customs at the port of Memphis, State of Tennessee, the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and are hereby, authorized and directed to credit the said William J.
Smith with the sum of two thousand and fourCredit to be made in accounts of, for money embezzled. dollars and ninety-nine cents in the settlement of his, accounts as late surveyor of customs, on account of the embezzlement and defalcation of N. D. Smith, deputy to the said surveyor, he being no relative, and it clearly appearing that the embezzlement and defalcation were no fault of the surveyor. Approved, August 4, 1886. Chapter 905: to compensate physicians for services rendered under an order of the United States court of the northern district of Alabama.
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