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 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 168, 169, 170, 171. 1857. 519 Thornton, Lawrence Taliaferro, and Hay T. Taliaferro, be released from Sumiés of D· their liability as surctics OH the bonds of D. M. F. Thornton, late a £i%1;gdTh°mt°¤ purser in the navy of the United States, executed on the third day of September, eighteen hundred and forty, and on the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-six. APPROVED, March 3, 1857. Culp. CLXVIII.-An Act for the Relief of Richard Jl Dlurray, a Sohlier in the Sem- March 3, 1857. irwle War of eighteen hundred and eighteen. `f;_‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the name of Richard J. Richard J. Murray be placed on the roll of invalid pensions, at the rate of eight L{““'gY *° be dollars per month, to commence on the first day of December, eighteen g;,?;0]l;il$§):,;Q hundred and fifty-five, and to continue during his natural life. month from Dec- APPRoVm>, March 3, 1857, 1, 1855, for life. HAP. CLXIX.-An Act or the Relie o Jos I1 Ba`, an inval`. C f of dghtmfhzgdrmegw tzma id Soldier of the War March 3, 1357 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *That the name of Joseph Joseph Bailey Bailey be entered on the rolls as an invalid pensioner, at the rate of eight *‘;¤€§mP;_2i°gt $2 dollars per month, from the first day of December, eighteen hundred and pu month from fift_y.f]vg_ PCG. 1. 1855. APPROVED, March 3, 1857. CHAP. CLXX.—An Act for the Relief of Puig, Mr, and Company, of New Orleans. March 3· 1857* Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to release a judgment ren- Judgments dered in the circuit court of the United States, in the fifth circuit and ”,f,€;‘”§; Cg)‘;g*b° eastern district of Louisiana, on the thirteenth day of February, one released, ` thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the case of The United States vs. Puig, Mir, and Company, of New Orleans, for the sum of one thousand three hundred and ten dollars and fifty-four cents, and interest thereon, being the amount of duties claimed to be due and payable to the United States on certain coffee imported into the port of New Orleans from Cuba, in the Spanish brig "Pepita ; " and that the said Secretary of the Treasury is hereby further authorized and required to release a judgment rendered in said court, at the same date, in the case of the United States vs. P. Puig, and Puig, Mir, and Company, of New Orleans, for the sum of three thousand seven hundred and sixty-one dollars and twelve cents, and interest thereon, being the amount of import duties claimed to be due and payable to the United States on certain coffee imported into the said port of New Orleans, from Cuba, in the Spanish brig "Atalayador;" but if the judgments aforesaid or any part thereof shall have been paid by the defendants, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby Ailyh ¤m<>1:i¤¤ further authorized and required to refund to them, out of any moneys in Egg, ieggggdfl" the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount so paid. APPROVED, March 3, 1857. _ CHAP. CLXXI.-—An Act jbr the Relief of Baac P. Washburne. March 3, 1857, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In-