Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 15.djvu/497

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FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. III. RES. 30, 33. 1869. 465 Sec. 3. And be it further resolved, That in the settlement of the SW1 M·G¤¢¤¤: accounts of Seth M. Gates, postmaster at Warsaw, New York, with the Post-Office Department, the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow a credit to the said Seth M. Gates of seven hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy-three cents, the amount in value of postage stamps belonging to the United States, stolen from the post-ollice on the sixteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, while the said Gates was postmaster: Provided, That it shall satisfactorily appear provisoto the Postmastcr·General that the said Gates was guilty of no negligence in the custody of said stamps. Approved, March 3, 1869. [No. 31.] Join! Resolution _/or the Relief of Mrs. Ella E. }Iobart. Merch 3. I$69· Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ry" America in Congress assembled, That Ella E. Hobart, who was Elglagmgzggft appointed as chaplain to the first regiment of Wisconsin volunteer heavy` artillery, shall be entitled to receive the full pay and emoluments of a chaplain in the United States army, for the time during which she faithfully performed the services of a chaplain to said regiment, as if she had been regularly commissioned and mustered into service. Approved, March 3, 1869. VOL. xv. l’1<1v. —— 30