Volume 6
Private Law 27–XXXIX
for the relief of Samuel D. Rose and others.
Approved February 24, 1843
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Samuel D. Rose and others.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby,
Certain money recovered from a mail-robber to be paid 10 them.
directed to pay over to Samuel D. Rose, of Pennsylvania, John Baker, of Ohio, and Judah Case, of Pennsylvania, each his pro rata proportion of the two hundred and thirty dollars now in the hands of the Post Office Department, and which is a part of the money recovered from William Martin, of Pennsylvania, who was convicted of robbing the United States mail in Pennsylvania, in eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and who confessed that he took from said Rose one hundred and ten dollars, from said Baker one hundred and fifteen dollars, and from said Case four hundred and seventy dollars; on each of said persons giving bonds, with surety, to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General, to repay said money, if it shall hereafter be shown to belong to any other person or persons.
Approved, .