Chapter 2. For the relief of Frank E
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CHAP. 2.— An Act For the relief of Frank E. Kellogg, collector of the sixth internal-revenue district of Missouri. December 11, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Frank E. Kellogg released from liability for loss of internal-revenue stamps. treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to release and discharge Frank E. Kellogg, collector of the sixth internal-revenue, district of the State of Missouri, from any liability he maybe under to the United States by reason of the alleged loss of a certain book numbered nine-teen hundred and twenty, containing retail liquor dealers’ internal-revenue special-tax stamps of the value of two thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents, and the Auditor for the Treasury Department is hereby authorized to make the necessary entries upon his books showing the discharge of said Kellogg from such liability: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall first *Provisos*. —conditions; indemnity bond. be satisfied that said loss really occurred, and that no damage has been or will be sustained by the United States by such release: *And provided further*, That the said Kellogg shall first execute a bond of indemnity to the United States, with sufficient surety, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Approved, December 11, 1900.