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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC05584
From Archive Folder	Documents Relating to 1848
Title	Report no. 326, from the committee on the Post Office and Post Roads
Date	9 March 1848
Author	Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
Document Type	Government document
Content Description	Lincoln reports his recommendation to the House that Brimfield, Illinois Postmaster H. M. Barney be released from paying specie funds lost in a disastrous fire. Barney's store, along with all the papers of the post office, was destroyed by fire on 15 December 1847.
Subjects	President Government and Civics Congress Post Office Finance
People	Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Barney, H. M. (fl. 1848)
Place written	Washington, D.C.
Theme	Government & Politics; The Presidency
Sub-collection	The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
Transcript	Show/hide [excerpt] …Mr. LINCOLN, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, made the following REPORT: The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the petition of H.M. Barney, postmaster at Brimfield, Peoria county, Illinois, report: That they have been satisfied by evidence, that on the 15th of December, 1847, said petitioner had his store, with some fifteen hundred dollars worth of goods, together with all the papers of the post office, entirely destroyed by fire; and that the specie funds of the post office were melted down, partially lost, and partially destroyed; that his large individual loss entirely precludes the idea of embezzlement; that the balances due the department of former quarters has been only about twenty-five dollars; and that owing to the destruction of the papers, the exact amount due for the quarter ending December 31st, 1847, cannot be ascertained. They therefore report a joint resolution, releasing said petitioner from paying anything for the quarter last mentioned. …

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