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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 27 STAT. · December 16, 1892 · Chapter 4

Chapter 4. for the relief of R

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CHAP. 4.— An Act for the relief of R. B. Woodson.December 16, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,R. B. Woodson.Credit in accounts of. That the Postmaster-General be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to allow R. B. Woodson, post-master, Gainesville, Alabama, a credit for the sum of one hundred and forty-two dollars money-order funds collected by him and lost in transit from Gainesville, Alabama, to Mobile, Alabama, on or about September
(809)810 twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and which the Postmaster-General was unable to allow to said postmaster as a credit under existing laws, and which amount was paid and lost by said postmaster. The Postmaster-General is authorized and directed to refund said sum of one hundred and forty-two dollars to said Woodson, and take his Appropriation.receipt in full satisfaction of said claim. An amount sufficient to refund said sum of one hundred and forty-two dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, December 16, 1892.
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