Volume 6

Private Law 10–XXIII

for the relief of Samuel Whiting.

Approved February 25, 1808

Statutory text

An Act

for the relief of Samuel Whiting.

Be it enacted, &c.,

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Samuel Whiting four hundred

Compensation for services rendered.

and forty dollars, in satisfaction of the said Samuel Whiting’s claim for services rendered, and expenses incurred, pursuant to the directions of the post-master general, in the apprehending and prosecuting one Henry Deming, late a deputy post-master at Hinsdale, in Massachusetts, who was indicted in the circuit court of the United States, at Boston, for embezzling certain letters which came to his possession, containing bank-notes belonging to the said Samuel Whiting.

Approved, February 25, 1808.