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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · March 11, 1852 · Chapter XIV

Chapter XIV. *for the Relief of Lieutenant-Colonel Mitchell, of the State of Missouri.* March 11, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That it shall be the The Attorney-General to prosecute the writ of error in Mitchell *v.* Harmo

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Chap. XIV.— An Act *for the Relief of Lieutenant-Colonel Mitchell, of the State of Missouri.* March 11, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That it shall be the The Attorney-General to prosecute the writ of error in Mitchell *v.* Harmony.duty of the Attorney-General of the United States to prosecute the writ of error pending before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of D. D. Mitchell *versus* M.
X. Harmony, without cost to the plaintiff in error. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Attorney-General be, Proceedings to be instituted to stay process in Harmony *v.* Mitchell till the writ of error is decided.and he is hereby directed to cause such chancery or other proceedings to be instituted in the name of D. D. Mitchell *versus* M. X. Harmony, or his assignees, before the proper court at St. Louis, Missouri, as shall stay proceedings upon a certain judgment at law, in the name of said Harmony against said Mitchell, until the rendition of an opinion by the Supreme Court of the United States upon the writ of error aforesaid.
And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause such Said Mitchell to be secured against said judgment.security to be entered by the United States as shall indemnify and save said Mitchell harmless against said judgment. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That whenever the Attorney-General If the judgment is adverse to said Mitchell, it is to be assumed and paid by the United States.of the United States shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury that the writ of error in the cause aforesaid has failed, or that no further steps can be taken at law or in equity whereby to avoid the payment of said judgment in favor of said Harmony rendered in the State of Missouri, then it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, and he is hereby authorized to liquidate and satisfy said judgment, damages, and costs, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 11, 1852.
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