Chapter XVIII. for the Relief of Williams, Staples and Williams. March 19, 1852. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Repayment to Williams, Staples & Williams, of duties on goods burnt in public store

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Chap. XVIII.— An Act *for the Relief of Williams, Staples and Williams.* March 19, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Repayment to Williams, Staples & Williams, of duties on goods burnt in public store.Treasury be, and is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Williams, Staples and Williams, of the city of Norfolk, in the State of Virginia, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum not exceeding eleven hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents, being the duty paid by them on one hundred and twenty-one hogsheads of sugar, which were destroyed by fire while in the public store, in the city of Norfolk aforesaid, on the fourteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, which sugars were imported by them into the port of Norfolk on or about the sixth day of June, eighteen hundred and Proviso.forty-eight: *Provided,* That satisfactory evidence shall be produced to the Secretary of the Treasury of the destruction of said sugar by the fire aforesaid.

Approved, March 19, 1852.