Volume 21
Private Law 46–262
for the relief of E. K. Snead, deceased, and his sureties, for the loss of certain books of special stamps and coupons.
Approved June 16, 1880
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of E. K. Snead, deceased, and his sureties, for the loss of certain books of special stamps and coupons.
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 credit upon the official bond of E. K. Snead, deceased, late collector of internal revenue for the first district of Virginia, and of his sureties therein, so much, not exceeding two thousand and twenty dollars and eighty-three cents, as shall be satisfactorily proven to said Secretary to have been transmitted, in books containing special-tax stamps and coupons, by the deputy of said E. K. Snead, deceased, a certain Patrick II. Slaughter, on or about April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, through the mail to said E. K. Snead, and were lost in transitu, and were never received by said Snead, and have never therefore been accounted for by him to the government: Provided, however, That it shall be satisfactorily
Proviso.
shown that the said stamps and coupons were not lost under such circumstances as to have probably devolved a loss upon the Government by reason thereof, or were not lost from the fault or negligence of the collector or his deputy, involving in its result a probable loss to the government.
Approved, June 16, 1880.