Private Law 60–19

That the Secretary of the

Stephen R. Stafford.

Payment to administratrix of.

Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Alice M. Stafford, administratrix of the estate of Captain Stephen R. Stafford, of the Fifteenth Infantry, United States Army, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and ninety-two cents, the same being the amount of money necessarily advanced and paid by him out of his own personal funds while first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster, Fifteenth Infantry, post quartermaster and commissary at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, in the years eighteen hundred and seventy-nine and eighteen hundred and eighty, in order that the troops in said command might have fresh beef and necessary food during the fourteen months drought in which no rain fell in the region of said fort, and during which time the beef presented for issue by the beef contractor was of such poor quality as to be unfit for food for said command.