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Volume 6 · 838

Private Law 27–LXXIV

for the relief of the legal representatives of John Barnes, deceased.

Approved July 27, 1842

Statutory text

An Act

for the relief of the legal representatives of John Barnes, deceased.

Be it enacted, &c.,

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he

To he paid his distributive share of a judgment recovered by U.S.

is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not other-wise appropriated, to the legal representatives of John Barnes, deceased, late a collector of customs for the district of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, two thousand one hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents, in full for his distributive share of a judgment recovered by the United States against Robert Beverly, Josias M. Speake, and Robert Ober, on a bond executed by them to the United States, bearing date the fourteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and eight, in the penal sum of eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars, conditioned that the same should be void, if a vessel called the “Acteor” should not proceed to a foreign port, &c.

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