Private Law 25–LX

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is

Payment to them.

hereby, authorized to pay to the legal representatives of Nathan Sage, late of Oswego, in the state of New York, and late collector of the customs of the United States, from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same proportional part of any sum of money that has actually been paid into the treasury in satisfaction of a judgment recovered by the United States on the complaint of said Sage against Eliakim Barney, for a violation of the revenue laws of the United States, as the said Sage, or his legal representatives, would have been entitled to receive had the whole amount of said judgment been paid; first deducting from the sum paid into the treasury aforesaid, and excluding from the division contemplated by this act, the full amount of costs awarded to the United States by said judgment: said judgment being the same TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 61, 62, 63, 64. 1839. that was recovered in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-four, in the court of the United States for the northern district of the state of New York.