Volume 12
Private Law 37–XV
for the Relief of William B. Snowhook and others.
Approved January 30, 1863
Statutory text
An Act
for the Relief of William B. Snowhook and others.
Whereas a judgment has been recovered in the United States Circuit
Sureties of Charles H. Pine to be credited with $2500 on a judgment against them.
Court of the northern district of Illinois against Thomas Hoyne, E. S. Smith, Isaac Cook, William B. Snowhook, and Richard J. Hamilton, as sureties of Charles H. Pine, late United States marshal for said district, in which judgment is included a sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, money advanced to said Pine by the government on the ninth day of November, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, after he had become known to the officers of the United States to be a defaulter in office, and after two of the said sureties had expressly notified the late Secretary of the Interior of such official delinquency, and protested against any further liability being incurred by them; all of which facts appear of record in the archives of the Department of the Interior: Therefore —
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Solicitor of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to remit to the said sureties, as a credit upon the amount of said judgment in satisfaction pro tanto, the said sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, upon the payment of the balance of said judgment by the said securities: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall in anywise have the effect to release the principal in said bond from his liability thereon.
Approved, .