Chapter 343. for the relief of Daniel B
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CHAP. 343.— An Act for the relief of Daniel B. Washburn.February 25, 1891. Whereas Daniel B. Washburn, of Milford, in the CommonwealthPreamble. of Massachusetts, received, in his capacity of administrator of the estate of William McFarland, late of said Milford, deceased, from the assistant treasurer of the United States, the sum of one thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and ninety-four cents, being the amount, on the fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, due to said McFarland from the United States on pension certificate numbered three hundred and four thousand three hundred and eighty-two; and Whereas said Washburn, in good faith, paid out of said amount of money the sum of one thousand and fifty-five dollars and fifty cents in payment of the debts due from the said estate, and expenses of 1384FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Chs. 343-346. 1891. administration of said estate, and for a headstone placed at the grave of said McFarland: and Whereas said Washburn has since said payment been compelled to refund said sum of one thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and ninety-four cents to said assistant treasurer of the United States; and Whereas said Washburn was obliged to mortgage his home to raise the money to refund to the United States, and has been obliged to pay interest on said mortgage note ever since until the present:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Daniel B. Washburn.Payment to., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to said Daniel B. Washburn the said sum of one thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and ninety-four cents. Approved, February 25, 1891.