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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 26 STAT. · December 26, 1890 · Chapter 38

Chapter 38. releasing S

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CHAP. 38.— An Act releasing S. H. Brooks, assistant treasurer of the United . States, and his sureties on his official bond.December 26, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,S. H. Brooks.Release of official bond. That the said S. H. Brooks, and the sureties on his official bond be, and they are hereby, released from any and all liability that may have accrued, or arising out of the loss of ten thousand dollars from the United States subtreasury at San Francisco, California, which loss was discovered and reported by said Assistant Treasurer S.
H. Brooks to the Treasury Department at Washington on the twenty-seventh day of February, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-six. The said loss of the said ten thousand dollars has heretofore been made the subject of full investigation by said Treasury Department, and as to how or when said money, or any part thereof, was lost was never Ascertained. The proper officer of the United States Treasury Department is hereby authorized and directed to cancel and discharge any liability upon said bond arising out of the loss of said money.
Approved, December 26, 1890.
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