Chapter 6.
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CHAP. 6.— For the relief of Joseph Cox. administrator of Charles Pasters, deceased.February 1, 1888. Whereas, Charles Pasters, of Randolph County, Indiana, was onPreamble. the twelfth day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-four, granted a pension, for which a certificate was then and there duly issued to him; that there was due said Pasters on said certificate the sum of four hundred and eighty-three dollars and seventy-three cents; that a voucher for said sum was duly executed by said Pasters, in his lifetime, and returned to the proper United States pension agent at Indianapolis.
Indiana; and Whereas, said Pasters, on the twenty-fifth day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and. before he received the check for said sum, died, leaving no widow or child surviving him; and Whereas, afterwards, to wit, on the thirty-first day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-four, the United States pension agent aforesaid issued a check for the sum aforesaid payable to said Pasters; and Whereas, said check was delivered to Joseph Cox. who was the duly appointed administrator of said Pasters, as a part of his. said Pasters’ estate; and Whereas, the said Cox, as such administrator, under the direction of the circuit court of said Randolph County, applied, in good faith, the proceeds of said check, to wit. the sum aforesaid, to the payment of the funeral expenses and other indebtedness of said Pasters; and Whereas, the United States has brought suit against the said Joseph Cox to recover the sum aforesaid;
Therefore. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Joseph Cox., That said JosephRelief of. Cox be, and he is hereby, fully acquitted and discharged from all liability to the United States on account of the collection of the check aforesaid, or the appropriation thereof, or of its proceeds, or of the sum of the four hundred and eighty-three dollars and seventy-three cents, so allowed said Charles Pasters, deceased, as aforesaid.
Approved, February 1, 1888. 1025