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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 41 STAT. · December 30, 1919 · Chapter 31

Chapter 31. To relieve the estate of Thomas H

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CHAP. 31.— An Act To relieve the estate of Thomas H. Hall, deceased, late postmaster at Panacea, Florida, and the bondsmen of said Thomas H. Hall, of the payment of money alleged, to have been misappropriated by a clerk in said office. December 30, 1919.[[S. 2716](/us/bill/66/s/2716).][[Private, No. 17](/us/pvtl/66/17).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Thomas H. Hall. Relieved of payment of postal funds stolen from.
That the estate of Thomas EL Hall, deceased, late post master at Panacea, Florida, and the bondsmen of the said Thomas H. Hall as such postmaster, be, and they are 1457hereby, relieved of the payment of $544.73, together with the amount of the costs which may have accrued on account of the United States bringing an action to enforce the payment of said sum, the said sum being the amount of cash and funds held by the Post Office Department to be due from said Hall’s estate to the United States for money misappropriated to his own use by a clerk in said office while the proffered resignation of said Hall was pending in the Post Office Department and while the said clerk was acting postmaster with the consent and acquiescence of the United States.
Approved, December 30, 1919.
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