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 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 460-463. 1882. 737 two cents, being the amount due to the said paymaster on the final settlement of his accounts, after deducting from the amount charged to him the sum of ten thousand dollars which stands to the debit of the said paymaster on the authority of an alleged voucher for that amount presented by Major J. Ledyard Hodge, late paymaster, and bearing date August tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the validity of which voucher the government has failed to establish in a suit brought and finally determined in the United States district court at Utica, New York, in April, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for the settlement of the accounts of the said Major C. M. Scholetield, as such additional paymaster, with the government; and upon the payment of the said sum of five hundred and forty-four dollars and thirty-two cents, as herein provided, the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized to balance the accounts of the said Major C. M. Scholeiield, as pay- master, with the government. Approved, August 7, 1882. CHAP. 461.-An act for the relief of Major W. B. King. August 7, 188z. ° Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of W, B · King. . the Treasury are hereby authorized to pass to the official credit of Major °'°d'* m *‘°°°“”°° W. R. King, disbursiug officer for the Tennessee River improvement, the sum of three thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars, and eighteen cents, that being the unrecovered balance of five thousand two hundred and forty dollars and eighteen cents of public funds forcibly taken from A. G. Smith, receiver of materials, on Muscle Shoals Canal, in the State of Alabama, by William Ryan and two other armed robbers, on the eleventh day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-one and for which sum the said W. R. King is accountable. Approved, August 7, 1882. · CHAP. 462.-An act for the relief of the executors of J ohn W. Forney August 7, 1332 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- John w. Forney, nry is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the executors of ohn r·;h¤f <>* ¤¤¤<=¤¤>¤‘¤ W. Forney the sum of twenty seven thousand six hundred and eighty ° · four dollars and seventy cents, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to reimburse the estate of the said John Forney·for losses sustained by him while Secretary of the Senate rn making good the deucit in the accounts of the financial clerk. Approved, August 7, 1882. ` CHAP. 463.-Au act for the relief of John. G. Abercrombie. August 7, 1882. Be it enacted the Senate and House o Representatives of the U nited States of Amertbga in Congress assembledf That the Secretary of the clgglaee G-:. {ub:;; Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay out of any money rn W ¤ P V the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John. G. Abercrombie, of Benton County, Arkansas, the sum of one hundred and ten dollars, amount collected df him by the Government of the United States as a failing bidder on mailroute numbered twenty-eight thousand five hundred and eighty four, in the State of Missouri. Approved, August 7, 1882. xxrr—-47