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770 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 363-366. 1873. F. Tracy postmaster at Bridgeport, Connecticut, to allow and credit him the sum of two thousand and eighty-five dollars, stolen from the post-office at Bridgeport, Connecticut on the first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, without any fault or negligence on the part of the said George F. Tracy Approved, March 3, 1873. March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCCLXIII.—An Act {br the Relief ey" Henry H. Staford, late Receiver of T`;""-` public Moneys at Marquette, Micliigan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Allowance to States ey" America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- F““"Y]H-S*°H°'d rior, and the Secretary of the Treasury, and the proper accounting officcrs

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receiver of public moneys for the district of lands subject to sale at Marquette, Michigan, shall allow and credit to the said Henry H. Stafford, the sum of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and thirteen cents, which sum had been received in payment for government lands, and deposited in the government safe in the Marquette land-oflice by Henry H. Stafford, then receiver, and which sum was destroyed by fire in the burning of said land—ofi‘ice and government safe, on the night of the eleventh of June, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Approved, March 3, 1873. March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCCLXIV. —- An Act for the Relief of Joseph Dawson Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United paymugm States of America in- Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- ·l<>¤¤Ph D¤W¤°¤- ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Joseph Dawson, of Virginia, the sum of one thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents, which shall be in full for all claims against the government growing out of expenses incurred on account of a gunshot wound received while in discharge of his official duties as assistant assessor of internal revenue, in Tazewell county, Virginia, on the eighteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Approved, March 3, 1873. March 3, 1878. CHAP. CCCLXV. —An Act jbr lhcifglicfof William Johnson, of Ripley County, Tl land. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment to States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- William ·l°lm‘ ury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to William Johnson, of Ripley mn` county, Indiana, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of onc hundred and thirty dollars, for one horse belonging to him, and which was, on the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, taken by the military forces under General Hobson, and applied to the service of the United States. APPROVED, March 3, 1873. March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCCLXVI. —An Act fir the Relief of Joseph L. Heywood, and others. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Allowance to States of America, in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting offi- ·l0¤¢5l} L· H6}'- cers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized to adjust and set-

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disallowed items in the account of Joseph L. Heywood, late marshal of the Territory of Utah, for compensation of guards, and provisions and supplies for same, escorting the judges to court and guarding court-house; for compensation and supp ies for aids and guards employed to assist in the execution of process, and in guarding prisoners after arrest; for pay-