Chapter 1226. for the relief of Colonel James C
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CHAP. 1226.— An Act for the relief of Colonel James C. Duane.October 19, 1888. *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,James C. Duane.Reimbursement to. That the sum of six hundred and forty-eight dollars, lawful money, be. and is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to reimburse Colonel James C. Duane, brevet brigadier general, United States Army, for losses incurred in his office as engineer of the third lighthouse district through the forgeries committed by a clerk in his office.
Henry J. Beute (who has fled the country), in raising his official checks to amounts greater than those for which they were drawn and signed, between the first day of January and the twenty-third day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. without any negligence or fault on the part of the said Colonel James C. Duane. Approved, October 19, 1888.