Chapter 163. For the relief of Herbert E
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CHAP. 163.— An Act For the relief of Herbert E. Meilstrup. February 28, 1923.[[S. 3118](/us/bill/67/s/3118).][[Private, No. 202](/us/pvtl/67/202).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary Herbert E. Meilstrup.Payments to, for personal losses.of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Herbert E, Meilstrup, formerly an enlisted man in the Forty-first Company of Engineers, unassigned, the sum of $53.40, the same being the value of personal property lost in a manner unknown when the said company was discharged from service in the Army, and while the said Herbert E.
Meilstrup was confined in General Hospital Numbered 25, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, suffering from pneumonia, during the month of December, 1918, the said personal property having been reasonable, useful, necessary, and proper for an enlisted man while in quarters, engaged in the public service, in the line of duty, and having been lost without fault or negligence on the part of the owner, and claim for replacement of such property or recoupment of damages having been disallowed by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, which decision was sustained on review.
Approved, February 28, 1923.