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 SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 43, 44, 49, 55.

paid into the treasury by the said Walter Channing, or by Gibbs and Channing, as, and for, duties upon saltpetre, imported into the United States in the year one thousand eight hundred and three.

, April 11, 1820.

CHAP. XLIII.-An Act for the relief of certain persons who have paid duties on certain goods imported into Castine.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be repaid, from the treasury, to the following persons, to wit: Jonathan L. Stevens, Joseph Briant, Samuel Littlefield, Holbrook and Brooks, Doty Little, Rowell and Haskell, John Minot, Witherlee and Jarvis, John H. Jarvis, Caleb B. Hall, Ebenezer Noyes, Samuel Bartlett, John Bartlett, John Buck, Swazey and Folsom, John N. Swazey, Benson and Blodget, John Benson, Solomon Skinner, Eliphalet Parker, Henry Dar- ling, Henry Rice, who made payment, or to their legal representatives, all sums which have been paid into the treasury, as, and for, duties upon goods imported into Castine, while in possession of the British forces, during the late war with Great Britain, the same not being, by law, subject to the payment thereof, upon which goods duties were also levied and paid to the British authorities, upon their importation into Castine: Provided, That it shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that the claimants above named were resi- dents of Castine or Bucksport, or were purchasers from residents, of the goods on which the duties have been imposed.

, April 11, 1820.

Be it enacted, &c., That the credit allowed by the existing laws upon the duties due and remaining unpaid to the United States, at the custom-house at Savannah, upon imported merchandise, which was destroyed by fire at Savannah, on the eleventh day of January last, and then belonging to the importers thereof, and not insured against fire, be, and the same is hereby, prolonged for four years, from the respective times when such duties may be payable: Always provided, That said bonds be renewed, with sufficient surety, to the satisfaction of the collector of the said district of Savannah.

, April 11, 1820.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Department of War be, and he is hereby, directed to issue, in the name of Elizabeth Braden, a land warrant for the bounty land to which her son, George Braden, a soldier, who died of wounds received in the late war, would have been entitled had he lived.

, April 24, 1820.

Be it enacted, &c., That, for the discharge of a judgment obtained against John Steele, collector of Philadelphia, on account of his refusal to grant a clearance for the Spanish brig Los Dos Amigos, in which refusal the said collector acted under an instruction from the department of state, a sum, not exceeding three thousand three hundred dollars, be,