Volume 6
Private Law 19–LXXXV
for the relief of Pedro Miranda.
Approved March 3, 1827
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Pedro Miranda.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is
Certain duties to be refunded.
hereby, authorized and directed to refund and pay over to Pedro Miranda, the sum of two hundred and three dollars and sixty-three cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; it being the amount of duties illegally demanded of him, and paid by the said Pedro Miranda, on a quantity of sugar and molasses, at the port of Savannah, which was of the growth and manufacture of the United States, and saved from a wreck on the coast of Florida.
Approved, .