Volume 6
Private Law 20–LIX
for the relief of the legal representatives of John Guest, deceased.
Approved March 3, 1829
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of the legal representatives of John Guest, deceased.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Third Auditor of the Treasury Department is hereby authorized to settle and adjust the claim of the legal
Claim for a house burnt to be adjusted and settled.
representatives of John Guest, deceased, for a frame house and brick office, burnt, in the town of Havre de Grace, in the state of Maryland, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, by the British,
Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 66.
Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.
upon the principles of the act of the third March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, the same as if application had been made to the Commissioner, under the act of Congress of the ninth April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. The sum found due, if any thing, by the Third Auditor, under this act, and the acts referred to, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .