Chapter 4. For the relief of Colonel Charles B
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CHAP. 4.— An Act For the relief of Colonel Charles B. Dougherty and other members of the Ninth Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry. December 19, 1900. Whereas on the seventeenth day of May, eighteen hundred and Payment authorized to certain members of Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry for personal baggage destroyed by fire. ninety-eight, the baggage car in the train carrying the Ninth Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry from Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania, to Camp Thomas, at Chickamauga, Georgia, caught fire accidentally and was destroyed, with all its contents; and Whereas officers and members of said regiment had personal baggage and headquarters property in said car. which was entirely destroyed.
The names of said officers and members, with the value of the property so destroyed, are as follows: Charles B. Dougherty, 1633 1634 three hundred and nine dollars and sixty-eight cents; George W. Wallace, one hundred and twelve dollars; John S. Harding, two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and five cents; Frank L. McKee, two hundred and sixty-four dollars and ten cents; William Sharpe, one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and ninety-five cents; George F. Buss, two hundred and fifty-nine dollars:
Robert S. Mercur, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and ninety-five cents; Walter De F. Johnson, one hundred and sixty-four dollars and thirty-five cents; Edmund N. Carpenter, three hundred and nine dollars and sixty-eight cents; Walter S. Stewart, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents; William G. Weaver, one hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty-five cents; Charles H. Miner, eighty-four dollars and thirty-five cents; Frank W. Innis, forty dollars;
Samuel C. Chase, fifteen dollars and seventy-five cents; Claude R. Grosser, eighteen dollars and twenty-five cents; Richard Generals, twenty-one dollars and fifty cents; Harry R. Williams, one hundred and seventy-five dollars and seventy-five cents: John McCallum, one hundred and thirty dollars and seventy cents; Walter R. Phillips, one hundred and nineteen dollars and forty cents; Dennison Stearns, one hundred and eighty-two dollars and ninety cents; James C. Kenny, one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and twenty cents;
John A. Kenny, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifteen cents; Louis Frank, six dollars and fifty cents; E. G. Gage, eighty-seven dollars and twelve cents; Fred C. Bennett, seventy-five dollars; Charles S. Colony, one hundred and seventy-one dollars and thirty-seven cents; John H. Mahan, fifty-five dollars; Perry H. Benscoter, twelve dollars; O. Hillard Bell, one hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-five cents; Edmund D. Camp, one hundred and six dollars; William T.
Hart, fifty-three dollars and seventy cents; E. L. Solomon, seventeen dollars and eighty cents; Morris M. Keck, nineteen dollars and thirty-five cents; Darius L. Miers, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents: Evan R. Williams, eighty-two dollars and forty-four cents; Author Everette, sixty-three dollars and nineteen cents; George S. McCleary, two hundred and eleven dollars and twenty-five cents; Harry G. Roat, one hundred and one dollars and twenty cents;
George R. McLean, two hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy cents; John T. Flannery, ninety-four dollars; Michael J. Buckley, eighty-one dollars and ninety-five cents; Michael J. Brennan eighty-three dollars and twenty cents; Harry W. Pierce, two hundred and eleven dollars; W. F. Powell, forty-three dollars and ninety cents; Adnah McDaniels, seventy-six dollars and fifty cents; total, five thou-sand five hundred and ninety-five dollars and thirty-five cents: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay said officers and members of the Ninth Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry as aforesaid, or their legal representatives, the said several sums specified in the preamble to this Act lost by them, respectively, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, December 19, 1900.