Chapter 858. for the relief of the estate of Charles F
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CHAP. 858.— An Act for the relief of the estate of Charles F. Bowers.September 2, 1890. Whereas, on or about the ninth day of August, in the year of ourPreamble. Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-two. Charles F. Bowers, then first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster of the Eighth Regiment of 1248 New Jersey Volunteers, did receive from George H. Weeks, then captain and assistant quartermaster of United States volunteers, the sum of two hundred and thirty dollars, being funds of the United States belonging to the Quartermaster Department of the Army, and was unable technically to “account” tor the same as required by the rules of the Treasury Department, because of the loss and destruction of his official books and papers during the campaign of eighteen hundred and sixty-two under General John Pope; and Whereas, it appears by the evidence on tile in the Third Auditor’s Office of the Treasury Department that the said money was nevertheless actually and lawfully disbursed by the said Charles F.
Bowers in the execution of the duties of his said office, though unable to furnish formal vouchers therefore because of said loss and destruction of his said books and papers: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Charles F. Bowers., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise Payment to legal representatives of.appropriated, to the legal personal representative or representatives of the late Charles F.
Bowers, of Newark, New Jersey, the sum of two hundred and thirty dollars. Approved, September 2, 1890.