Chapter 294. to authorize the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to audit and pay the claim of the county of Schuylkill, in the State of Pennsylvania, for money advanced by it under allotments made by soldiers from said county during the late rebellion, by virtue of section twelve of the act of Congress
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CHAP. 294.— An Act to authorize the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to audit and pay the claim of the county of Schuylkill, in the State of Pennsylvania, for money advanced by it under allotments made by soldiers from said county during the late rebellion, by virtue of section twelve of the act of Congress entitled “An act to authorize the employment of volunteers to aid in enforcing the laws and protecting public property,” approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.February 24, 1891.
Whereas, the county of Schuylkill, in the State of Pennsylvania,Preamble. during the late rebellion advanced money upon allotments made by soldiers from the said county then in the service of the United States to the families of said soldiers and to others, under and by virtue of section twelve of the act of Congress entitled “An act to authorizeVol. 12, p. 271. the employment of Volunteers to aid in enforcing the laws and protecting public property,” approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the orders and regulations of the Secretary of War made in pursuance of said section of said act of Congress; and Whereas, the said county claims that the whole sum so advanced by it has not heretofore been refunded to it by the United States:
Therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Schuylkill County, Pa.Claim to be audited and paid., That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and are hereby, authorized and directed to audit the claim of the said county of Schuylkill, and when audited to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the said county such portion of the sum advanced upon allotments as aforesaid by the said county which the accounting officers aforesaid may thereby ascertain has not heretofore been refunded to said county by the United States: *Provided*,*Proviso*.
That no sum shall be so refunded when it shall appear to said accounting officers that the soldier making such particular allotment or allotments shall have been also paid by the United States, unless it shall also appear that such double payment was not throughDouble payments. any negligence in reference thereto on the part of the officers of said county charged with the duty of making such advances. Approved, February 24, 1891.