Chapter 246. For the relief of H
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CHAP. 246.— An Act For the relief of H. C. Herndon. February 17, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * H. C. Herndon.Payment to. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and four dollars and thirty cents, to H. C. Herndon, of Cattlettsburg, Kentucky, for the Joss of a registered package containing said sum which he placed in the post-office at Webbville, Kentucky, as deputy collector of internal revenue, on November twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, addressed to Thomas C.
McDowell, collector for seventh internal-revenue district of Kentucky, and which sum was stolen from said post-office on the night of the twenty-fourth of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and the said Herndon was compelled to pay the said collector the said sum. Approved, February 17, 1897.