Chapter 233. For the relief of Hugh C
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CHAP. 233.— An Act For the relief of Hugh C. Preston. March 20, 1902.[[Private, No. 183](/us/pvtl/57/183).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Hugh C. Preston.Credit in accounts. That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed, in the settlement of the accounts of Hugh C. Preston, late first lieutenant, Thirty-first Infantry, United States Volunteers, to allow him credit for seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and three cents, the same being the amount of funds of the United States stolen from his tent at Zamboanga, in the island of Mindanao, Philippine Islands, on or about December thirty-first, nineteen hundred, while he was acting as commissary of subsistence, in accordance with the finding of the board of survey.
Approved, March 20, 1902.