Chapter 254. for the relief of Mrs
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CHAP. 254.— An Act for the relief of Mrs. Selina Bestor, Orson H. Bestor, and E. Francis Riggs.February 21, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Selina Bestor, Orson H. Bestor, and E. Francis Riggs.Payment to. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Mrs. Selina Bestor, Orson H. Bestor, and E. Francis Riggs, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-one thousand two hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-seven cents, the same being the amount that was improperly turned over to the United States Treasury, or to the disbursing officers of the United States Navy, by the aforesaid parties in settlement of a deficiency in the money account of Assistant Paymaster Jacob D.
Doyle, United States Navy, who at the time the deficiency occurred was insane, and that said sum be distributed as follows: To Mrs. Selina Bestor the sum of fourteen thousand two hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-seven cents; to Orson H. Bestor, the sum of four thousand dollars; and to E. Francis Riggs, the sum of three thousand dollars. Approved, February 21, 1891.