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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FIFTYSIXTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES Passed at the second `session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Elbnday the third day of December. 1.900, and was atgaurned without day on ilfonday the fourth day of March, 1901. WILLIAM MCKINLEY, President; WILLIAM P. Farm, President of the Senate pro tempore; DAVID B. Hnnimnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. 2.-—An Act For the relief of Frank E. Kellogg, collector of the sixth Deeemberll. 1900- internal-revenue district of Missouri. W Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re resentatirves of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Tgat the Secretary of the ,€;";e§’g¤k,§éI§_§°}l§§§,{$· Treasur be, and he is hereby, authorized to release and discharge for loss of internal? Frank Kellogg, collector of the sixth internal—revenue__ district of ”v°°“°S°“mps' the State of Missouri, from any liability he may be under to the United States by reason of the alleged loss of a certain book numbered nineteen hundred and twenty, containing retail liquor dealers’ internalrevenue special-tax stamps of the value of two thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents, and the Auditor for the Treasury Department is hereby authorized to make the necessary entries upon is books showing the discharge of said Kello g from such liability: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall first ggj,"*§·;ghS_ i_1d€m_ be satisfied that said loss really occurred, and that no damage has been nity bona.` or will be sustained by the United States by such release: And o- tvidedfurther, That the said Kellogg shall first execute a bond of ingmnity to the United States, with sufficient surety, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. · Approved, December 11, 1900. CHAP. 4.-——An Act For the relief of Colonel Charles B. Dougherty and other December 19.1900. members of the Ninth Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry. "“`?—_‘ Whereas on the seventeenth day of May, eighteen hundred and m*§f§r§*a§;‘§j1*gI§}‘,$g;$)‘} ninety-eight, the baggage car in the train carrying the Ninth Regi- Ninth Regiment ment of Pennsylvania Infantry from Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania, to i;°1i1§Si(irva,iLi§`O,ilji Camp Thomas, at Chickamauga, Georgia, caught fire accidentally and }g§§g“g° d‘*S“°Y°d by was destroyed, with all its contents; and ` VVhereas officers and members of said regiment had personal bag— gage and headquarters property in said car, which was entirely destroyed. The names of said officers and members, with the value of the property so destroyed, are as follows: Charles B. Dougherty, v0L xxxI-;lO3 1633