Special Message
01/02/1889
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This balance was on the 30th day of June, 1877, carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury.
This bill authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the party named therein the sum of $905.
It is directed, however, that this money be paid out of the Texas indemnity fund.
I do not see how the relief proposed can be granted in this case without an unjustifiable departure from the rules under which applications ...