Private Law 16–VII

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he

To be credited with amount expended on an Indian reservation taken from him.

hereby is, authorized and required to admit to the credit, on the books of the treasury, of Edward W. Duval, in the settlement of his account, the sum of one thousand four hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents, in consideration, in full, for that amount expended by him on an Indian reservation purchased by him from the government, in or about the year eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and subsequently, that is, in April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, taken from the said Duval TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 8, 9, 10, 11. 1838.by the government; and after deducting from the aforesaid amount, which is to be credited to the said Duval, as on the twenty-sixth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of one thousand eighty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents, the amount of a judgment obtained against the said Duval in the United States court in Pennsylvania, the Secretary of the Treasury shall, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, pay over the balance of three hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty-seven cents, to the administrators of E. W. Duval; and thereupon the said administrators shall stand fully discharged from the further force and effect of the aforesaid judgment against them.