Chapter CXCIII. for the Relief of Madalena Van Ness, widow of Cornelius P
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Chap. CXCIII.— An Act for the Relief of Madalena Van Ness, widow of Cornelius P. Van Ness, deceased. March 3, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Mrs. M. Van Ness to be paid $9,000. That the sum of nine thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid to Mrs. Madalena Van Ness, widow of Cornelius P. Van Ness, deceased, in consideration of services rendered by the said Cornelius P.
Van Ness, in the seizure of goods imported into the district of Vermont, in violation of the laws of the United States, during the years eighteen hundred and thirteen and eighteen hundred and fourteen, while he was collector of the customs for said district, and for which service he did not receive the award provided by law in such cases. Approved, March 3, 1855.