Private Law 27–XXIV

That John P. Skinner and the legal representatives

Released from payment of the balance of a certain judgment.

of Isaac Green be, and they hereby are, released from the payment of the balance of five thousand three hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy-five cents, remaining unpaid on a judgment recovered at the May term, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, of the circuit court of the United States for the Vermont district, by the United States, against TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 25, 28, 29, 35. 1843. Thomas Emmerson, and the said John P. Skinner, and Isaac Green, sureties, on the official bond of the said Emmerson, late pension agent, for the sum of thirteen thousand six hundred and ninety dollars and ninety-one cents, it appearing that the amount due to the United States by said Emmerson might have been obtained from him without resorting to said sureties, if legal proceedings had been adopted against him by the proper officers of the United States, and that said officers, though requested by said sureties to commence and prosecute such proceedings, neglected and refused so to do: Provided, That nothing in this act

Proviso.

shall be construed to discharge the said Emmerson from liability under said judgment.