Chapter 205. for the relief of Samuel A
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CHAP. 205.— An Act for the relief of Samuel A. B. Woodford.April 27, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Samuel A. B. Wood-ford. That the claim of Samuel A. B. Woodford, of Clark County, Kentucky, for the value of seventy-five barrels of whisky, taken from him by order of General Samuel D. Sturgis, in April, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, be referred to the Secretary of War, to find and determine whetherSecretary of War to determine claim. or not the United States received the benefit of said whisky, and if he shall find that said whisky was taken for the benefit of the United States, (and that said claimant was loyal to the United States during the late civil war) to determine and award to the claimant the value of the whisky so taken; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay the sum so awarded, if any, to said Woodford.
And that a sufficient sum be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,Appropriation. for the payment thereof. Approved, April 27, 1888.