Chapter 166. To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to adjust and settle the shortages in certain accounts of said District, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 166.— An Act To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to adjust and settle the shortages in certain accounts of said District, and for other purposes. March 4, 1915.[[H. R. 15215](/us/bill/63/hr/15215).][[Public, No. 315](/us/pl/63/315).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Appropriation to settle defalcation of J. M. A. Watson. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to adjust and settle the shortages in certain accounts of said District arising through the defalcation of J.
M. A. Watson, formerly an employee of the Government of said District, by paying into the Treasury of the United States the sum of $63,939.96, to be credited as follows: Miscellaneous receipts, United States, $10,623.75; miscellaneous trust-fund deposits,From District revenues. District of Columbia, $51,556.22, and permit fund, District of Columbia, $1,759.99. There is hereby appropriated to carry into effect the provisions of this Act the sum of $63,939.96, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Approved, March 4, 1915.