Volume 24
Private Law 43–26
releasing the estate of the late Frank Soulé, late collector of internal revenue for the first district of the State of California, and his sureties on his official bond.
Approved March 22, 1886
Statutory text
An act
releasing the estate of the late Frank Soulé, late collector of internal revenue for the first district of the State of California, and his sureties on his official bond.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the estate of the late Frank Soulé, formerly collector of internal revenue of the first district of the State of California, and C. C. Webb, Ira T. Rankin, J. J. Felt, F. H. Waterman, James Dows, Samuel Soulé, the estate of W. H. Dana, deceased, James McM.Shafter, John Center, Horace Kilham, and Samuel Brannan, sureties of the said late Frank Soulé, by bond to the United States bearing date January twelfth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-six, be, and they are hereby, released from any liability that may have accrued in the office of said collector during his term of’ service; and the proper officer of the United States Treasury Department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cancel and discharge said liability, whether the same be pending in court or has become a judgment.
Approved, March 22, 1886.