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 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SEVENTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES,

Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day of December, 1801, and ended the third day of May, 1802.

STATUTE I.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the marshal of the district of Pennsylvania be authorized and directed to discharge Lawrence Erb, late a collector of the revenue of the United States, in the county of Northampton, in the district of Pennsylvania, from confinement, upon a judgment obtained against him in favor of the United States: Provided, That he take so much of an oath imposed upon persons imprisoned for debt by the second section of the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt," as relates to his not having transferred his property with an intent to defraud the United States; and that he shall assign and convey all the estate, real and personal, which he may now own, or be entitled to, to some person or persons for the use and benefit of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, also, That the said judgment shall remain in full force against any estate, real or personal, which the said Lawrence Erb may hereafter acquire, and that process may, at any time, be thereupon issued against the same.

, February 3, 1802.

Be it enacted, &c., That there be refunded and paid to Lyon Lehman, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated by law, the sum of one thousand six hundred and eighty-four dollars; it being the amount of duties paid by the said Lyon Lehman, to the collector of the port of New York, on three thousand five hundred rifles and carabines, which were imported from Hamburgh, by the said Lyon Lehman, into the said port of New York, on board the American brig Acteon, Captain Josiah Wilson, in the month of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.

, March 6, 1802.