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Private Law 16–CXXX
for the relief of Thomas Hunter.
Approved May 15, 1820
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Thomas Hunter.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the proper accounting officers of the treasury
Claim to be settled, and amount paid to S. Johnson.
department audit and settle the claim of Thomas Hunter, late a soldier in the nineteenth regiment of United States infantry, for retained bounty, pay, and travelling allowances, due him at the time of his honourable discharge; and to pay the amount due him to Sterling Johnson, his attorney in fact, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury: Provided, That the said Sterling Johnson shall make and deliver,
Proviso.
to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, a bond, in such sum, and with such surety, as the said Comptroller may direct, to secure the United States against a repayment of the sum which may be allowed and paid as aforesaid.
Approved, .