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 SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 94, 95, 96,97. 1823. 287 Cum-. XCIV. —An Act for the relief of Abraham Snyder. STATUTE n' Be it enacted, ¢$•c., That Abraham Snyder, of Ulster county, in the Mmh 3* mw state of New York, who is imprisoned within the limits of the jail of E .. . _ _ nabled to take the said county, on execution issued out of the District Court of the the benefit of the Southern District of New York, at the suit of the United States, shall “°*· be entitled to the relief and benefit of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt," passed January sixth, one Act of r,m_6, thousand eight hundred, in the same manner, and to the same effect, 1800. *91-4- as if he were imprisoned at the suit of an individual creditor : Pro- p,-Ovgm vided, That the notice required by the said act to be given to the creditor, his agent or attorney, shall be given to the District Attorney of the United States for the Southern District of New York: And Proviso. provided, further, That such discharge of the said Abraham Snyder shall not be deemed to affect the right or remedy of the United States against his sureties, or either of them. Approved, March 3, 1823. S H ————— ·r.i·ru-m. Crrar. XCV. - An Accfor the relief of Nathan Branson. March 3, 1823. Be it enacted, Qc., That there be paid to Nathan Branson, out of 669 ,,,,11,,,, and any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six 3 cents restored hundred and sixty-nine dollars and three cents, being the amount *° himrecovered from him in the District Court for the district of Alabama, on two bonds given by him for duties on goods, on which duty had already been paid, according to law, on their original importation into the United States. Approved, March 3, 1823. STATUTE II. Crier. XCVI. — An Act for the relief d` Ebenezer Stevens and others. March 3, 1623- Be it enacted, ¢§~c., That there be paid, after the first day of March, Aww, ,0 be one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, out of any moneys m paid to the rethe treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Ebenezer Stevens and ¥,*';’;;’,::‘;***§;né’; Austin L. Sands, representatives of Richardson Sands, deceased; to 8,},,, 0mm_ ’ Robert Morris, surviving assignee, under the late United States’ law of bankruptcy, of Comfort Sands, or to whomsoever shall appear to the Comptroller of the Treasury to be entitled to his share; and to Joshua Sands, the sum of twenty-two thousand nine hundred and seventy- eight dollars, in full satisfaction of their claim upon the United States under an award of referees in favor of them and others, dated at New York, on the twenty-fifth of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and the contracts therein referred to; one third part of which sum is to be paid to each of the said Richardson, Comfort, and Joshua Sands, or to their legal representatives as above mentioned: Provided, That, before such payment, each of the said parties shall P¤‘¤Vi¤<>· relinquish to the United States all further claim against them on account of said award, and the several contracts upon which that award was founded. Approved, March 3, 1823. """ Sururn II. Gun. XCVII. - An Actfar the relief of Samuel Hodgdan. March 3, 1823 Be it enacted, <$·c., That the accounting officers of the treasury de- _`""";` partment be, and they are hereby, authorized to revise the accounts _,0Q:°°g‘;§h 20 of John Smith, late of Ohio, as contractor for the supply of the army be revised, of the United States, arising out of the contracts in which the said Samuel Hodgdon was one of the suretics of said contractor, and to cause the judgment, obtained by the United States against said Samuel, on such contracts, to be credited with all such sums as shall appear to be equitably due to said contractor upon such contracts. Approved, March 3, 1823.