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Private Law 14–LXXII
directing the discharge of William Smith from imprisonment.
Approved March 3, 1817
Statutory text
An Act
directing the discharge of William Smith from imprisonment.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That William Smith, who is now confined in the jail of the city of Charleston, in the district of South Carolina, on a judgment obtained against him in favor of the United States, be discharged
Proviso.
from his imprisonment: Provided, That any estate, real or personal, which the said William Smith may now have, or hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken to satisfy the judgment aforesaid, in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged; and that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect the liability of any co-obligor that may have been bound with the said William Smith for the payment of any sum of money to the United States.
Approved, .