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 430 TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 125, 126. i830. the United States, of the sum of nine hundred and fifty-four dollars a11d eighty-three cents, with interest thereon from the first day of J anumy, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and the costs of said judgment; and, also, as security for all such sums of money as may rightfully, hereafter, be paid at the treasury, in discharge of balances due the fourth regiment of Virginia militia, to pay which the funds were placed in the hands of William Estes, paymaster to that regiment, and for whose default the judgment aforesaid was rendered against the defendants as his sureties. preeeedgnge Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, whensoever any payment •>¤ flwjudg- or payments shall hereafter be made by the treasury department which m°m‘ ought to have been made by the said William Estes, out of the money placed in his hands for the payment of balances due the fourth regiment of Virginia militia, of which he was paymaster, that the United States shall and may, from time to time, have writs of scire facias, on the judgment aforesaid, against the defendants, their executors, or administrators, to have execution for the sums so paid, with interest from the times of payment until the whole amount of said judgment shall be levied and aid. P Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, whenever demand of pay- ment shall hereafter be made at the treasury department, by any of those who were entitled to be paid out of the funds so held by William Estes, payment of such demand shall be suspended, until notice thereof be given to the defendants, or such of them as may afterwards be proceeded against, and time allowed to investigate the justice of the claim at the said department and not elsewhere. Armovnn, May 28, 1830. Snrurs I. May gg, 1830, CHAP. CXXV.-—An vflcl for lhe relief of Judah Jlden. Be it enacted, rye., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, Bounty land authorized and directed to issue a duplicate military bounty land war- YV¤¤’¤¤¤ W l>¤ rant to Judah Alden, a Captain in the second Massachusetts regiment, ”°“°d' in the army of the revolution, for three hundred acres of land ; the original warrant, number twelve, having been lost or mislaid. STANTE L Approved, May 28, 1830. M¤v28, 1830· Cnar. CXXVI.—An Aot for the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of ,83,,) ch, 1,..,, § 3. Joseph Falconer, deceased. Bc it enacted, cfpc., That the proper accounting officers of the trea- Claim for loan sury department be authorized to audit and settle the claim of Joseph °m°" “°"‘5‘ Falconer, an officer of the revolution, formerly of Philadelphia deceased cntes, alleged to . . ’. ’ have beenjosti on account of two several loan-office certihcates, issued April twenty- to be settled. first, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, to and in the name of John Cox; namely, one for the sum of one thousand dollars, and numbered thirty-five, and one for the sum of six hundred dollars, and numbered two thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven ; and to ascertain the true specie value of the same, exclusive of interest: which certificates are alleged to have been lost, and appear by the books of the treasury to be outstanding and unpaid; and that the amount so ascertained as aforesaid, be paid to the heirs or legal representatives of the said Joseph Falconer, or either of them, duly authorized and em- _ powered to receive the same, out of any money in the treasury, not Yf¤v1¤<>- otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the person or persons receiving the amount aforesaid, shall first execute, and deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury, a bond of indemnity in double the amount of the sum to be paid, with sufficient security, as the said Comptroller shall direct and approve. Approved, May 28, 1830.