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 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FORTY—FIRST CONGRESS or run UNITED STATES, Passed at the Third Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the _]€jirh day ef December, A. D. 1870, and was aoyourned without day on Saturday the fourth day of Jllarch, A. D. 1871. Umrssns S. GRANT, President. Scmnrnnn Conrsx, Vice-President and President of the Senate. JAMES G. BLAINE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. IV. — An Act for the Relief of Alfred E. Brooks, Postmaster at Ilion, New York. Dec. 20, 1870. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Credit to be al- Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed in adjusting the g’W°g 4m'°d accounts of Alfred E. Brooks, as postmaster at Ilion, in the county of mm gglg,:?,,_°` Herkimer, and State of New York, to give him credit for the sum of countseleven hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventeen cents, the amount of postage stamps deposited with him for sale by the United States, and money received by him on sale of postage stamps belonging to the United States, of which he was robbed on the tenth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, while acting in the aforesaid capacity: Provided, Proviso. That the said Secretary shall be satisfied upon due investigation that said Brooks was robbed as aforesaid without fault or negligence on his.part. Approved, December 20, 1870. CHAP. V. -·An Act jbr the Relief of Lawrence L. Merry, Collector of internal Revenue Dec. 20, 1870- jbr the twentieth District of New York. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary of the Credit to be at- Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, in adjusting the accounts of fw,j‘;rL“‘¥‘;g;° Lawrence L. Merry, collector of internal revenue for the twentieth dis- S.jm.,m3,, of hg, trict of New York, to credit him with the sum of three thousand six hun- ¤¤<=¤¤¤¤¤- dred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-three cents, the amount of revenue stamps stolen from the American Express Compauy’ safe and from the post·oflice at Ilion, Herkimer county, New York, on the night of the ninth of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for which amount said collector is responsible to the treasury of the United States: Pro- Proviso. vided, That it shall then still appear that the theft of said stamps was without the collusion, privity, or fault of the said collector. APPROVED, December 20, 1870. CHAP. IX. --An Aajr the Relig"Zy"the Sureties of the lou Captain A. R. Hazel!. Des. 22, mo. it appears that the accounts of the late Captain A. R. Het- Preamblezell, assistant quartermaster of the United States army, who died during the Mexican war, were settled at the treasury on the Efteenth day of