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Volume 20

Private Law 45–272

for the relief of John F. Andrews, postmaster at Washington, Georgia.

Approved June 18, 1878

Statutory text

An Act

for the relief of John F. Andrews, postmaster at Washington, Georgia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place to the credit of the fund for the Post-Office Department, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, on money order account, the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars, and the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department is directed to place the like sum to the credit of John F. Andrews, in his account as postmaster at Washington, Georgia, it being the amount of surplus money-order funds mailed by said postmaster, July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for deposit with the postmaster at Atlanta, Georgia; said money having been burned and destroyed with the railroad cars on the Georgia Railroad on the same day while en route to Atlanta.

Approved, June 18, 1878.

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