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884 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. CHS. 19, 20, 27-29. 1887. said credit being recommended by the then Postmaster—General, after a full investigation of all the circumstances attending said burglary: Prmviso. Provided, That it shall be proven to the satisfaction of said Auditor that said postage-stamps and money-order funds were lost as aforesaid without fault or negligence upon the part of said postmaster. To bg {mow,-,d Sec. 2. That the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Oftice Departcredit for postal ment be, and he is hereby, directed, in adjusiin g the accounts of Gratton fund “*°l°”· Monroe, late postmaster at Annapolis, Maryland, to credit him, the said Grafton Monroe, in his accounts as such postmaster, with two thousand tour hundred and thirty dollars, the same bein g for postal funds burglariously stolen from the post-office at Annapolis, Maryland, on the morn- }’•‘¢¤>*¤¢>· ing of February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four: Provided, That it shall be proven to the satisfaction of said Auditor that said postal funds were lost as aforesaid without fault or negligence upon the part of said postmaster. Approved, January 3, 1887. J¤¤· 3, 1887 · CHAP. 20.-An act granting a pension to Mrs. Barbara Fuchs. Be it enacted by the Senate ana House of Representatives of the United Barbara Fuchs- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior P°“*“°“· be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Mrs. Barbara Fuchs, stepmother of John Fuchs, late of Company H Sixth Be iment of Wiscoxisin Infantry Volunteers. 7 g Approved, January 3, 1887. J•¤- 17, 1887- CHAP. 27.-An act for the relief of William H. Randle, of Nashville, Tennessee. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United William H. Ran- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the dl; mem to Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to William y ‘ H. Randle the sum of ·four hundred dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, on account of the loss of a registered letter containing four hundred dollars, by reason of a defective postal car, which sum was paid by said Randle immediately after the loss of said letter. Approved, January 17, 1887. J¤¤-ll'. ISB7- CHAP. 28.-Au act for the relief of Bangs, Brownell and Company Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Bangs, Brownell States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas-

  • ”gC°x:;l;':,"t% ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and_directed to pay to Bangs,

°y ’ Brownell and Company the sum of five thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for tar and wood seized by the United States and sold, and for use of Vessel and loss of tools and materials. Approved, January 17, 1887. Jan. 17 , 1887. CHAP. 29.-·An act for the relief of John McNanghton. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United w·g°h“ M°N*“*Sh· States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary of the ,;,,},,,,8,,, t0_ Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any