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 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS or ras UNITED STATES, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City if Washingtort, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December, 1816, and ended on the third day of March, 1817. JAMES MADISON, President of the United States; Jox1N G.u1.1.sim, President of the Senate pro tempore; Hnmur CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II. Can. I.-An Act for the relief g' Nathaniel Wiliam. Jn_ 2, 18,, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ry" America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary To be div of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to dis- charged from charge from imprisonment Nathaniel Williams of Rockingham, in the imprisonmentstate of North Carolina, now confined in prison at Rockingham courthouse, on a juldlgment obtained in favor of the United States, in the district court of orth Carolina. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting ofli- Treasuryto cer of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and give him credit. directed to place to the credit of the said Nathaniel Williams, the sum of four hundred and twenty-nine dollars, it being the balance which appears on the books of the comptroller due from him, but which he has disbursed for the use of the United States. Approved, January 2, 1817. —;· Srsrurs II. Cmp. II.-An Act directing the discharge of Nathaniel Taft from imprisonment. Ju, 14, rg]-;_ Be it enacted, ¢§•c., That Nathaniel Tait, who is now confined in jail in the city of New York on a judgment obtained against him in favor Tobedis. of the United States, be discharged from his imprisonment: Provided, Plmrged IY0m however, That any estate, real or personal, which the said Nathaniel ""l’“°°"“'°"" Taft may have, or hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken to satisfy the judgment aforesaid, in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged: And provided further, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to afoot the liability of any co·obligor that may have been bound with the said Nathaniel Taft, for the payment of any sum of money to the United States. Approved, January 14, 1817. ’""""'“ Srsrvrs. II. CHAP. V. —An Act for the relief of PWlliam Haslet. ],m_ 2O_ 18W_ Be it enacted, rye., That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to Claim on so- . . · · f h·S  count Dfship audit and settle the claim of William Haslet, on account o 1 p Uhm ,0 be Liberty, by ascertaining or causing to be ascertained the value thereof, uttiegl (183)