Chapter CLXX. *for the Relief of Puig, Mir, and Company, of New Orleans.* March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to release a judgment rendered Judgments a
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Chap. CLXX.— An Act *for the Relief of Puig, Mir, and Company, of New Orleans.* March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to release a judgment rendered Judgments against Puig, Mir & Co. to be released.in the circuit court of the United States, in the fifth circuit and eastern district of Louisiana, on the thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the case of The United States *vs.* Puig, Mir, and Company, of New Orleans, for the sum of one thousand three hundred and ten dollars and fifty-four cents, and interest thereon, being the amount of duties claimed to be due and payable to the United States on certain coffee imported into the port of New Orleans from Cuba, in the Spanish brig “Pepita;” and that the said Secretary of the Treasury is hereby further authorized and required to release a judgment rendered in said court, at the same date, in the case of the United States *vs.* P.
Puig, and Puig, Mir, and Company, of New Orleans, for the sum of three thousand seven hundred and sixty-one dollars and twelve cents, and interest thereon, being the amount of import duties claimed to be due and payable to the United States on certain coffee imported into the said port of New Orleans, from Cuba, in the Spanish brig “Atalayador;” but if the judgments aforesaid or any part thereof shall have been paid by the defendants, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby Any amounts paid thereunder, to be refunded.further authorized and required to refund to them, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount so paid.
Approved, March 3, 1857.