Chapter 252. For the relief of George B
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CHAP. 252.— An Act For the relief of George B. Cosby.August 9, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,George B. Cosby.Credit in accounts. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury in settling the accounts of George B. Cosby, late a first lieutenant in the second cavalry, United States Army, are hereby authorized and directed to credit him with the sum of one thousand three hundred and fifty-eight dollars, being the amount of his official draft in favor of John T.
Shaaf, late a lieutenant in the United States Army, upon the assistant treasurer of the United States at New Orleans, Louisiana, on or about March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty, said check not having been honored or paid for the want of funds, occasioned by payment of forged checks by said assistant treasurer, for which said George B. Cosby was in no way responsible. Approved, August 9, 1894.