Chapter 520. For the relief of Colonel H
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CHAP. 520.— An Act For the relief of Colonel H. B. Freeman. February 7, 1903.[[Private, No. 451](/us/pvtl/57/451).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That Colonel H. B. Freeman, H. B. Freeman.Relief of.Twenty-fourth United States Infantry, be, and is hereby, relieved from the obligation to refund the sum of one thousand seven hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty cents, paid to him under a decision of the Acting Secretary of War as commutation of quarters while, on duty as acting Indian agent, Osage Agency, Pawhuska, Oklahoma Territory, from the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. both inclusive, which decision was overruled by the Comptroller of the Treasury, notwithstanding that the monthly claims which were based upon it had been approved by the auditing officers and paid, month by month, for upward of three years.
Approved, February 7, 1903.