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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · March 3, 1859 · Chapter XCVI

Chapter XCVI. *for the Relief of James Collier.* March 3, 1859. *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 $9,580.27 and interest to be paid James Collier to satisfy his judgment against the U

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Chap. XCVI.— An Act *for the Relief of James Collier.* March 3, 1859. *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 $9,580.27 and interest to be paid James Collier to satisfy his judgment against the U. S.be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be paid to James Collier, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine thousand five hundred and eighty dollars and twenty-seven cents, being for the amount (with its interest at the rate of six per centum per annum) found due from the United States to said Collier in a certain THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 97, 98, 99, 100. 1859. 569action tried and determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of New York, second circuit held on the thirtieth day of November, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-five, wherein the United States was plaintiff and said James Collier was defendant, and in which action said court upon the verdict of a jury certified that there was then due from the United States to said Collier, the sum of eight thousand one hundred and ten dollars and twenty-nine cents, and which proceedings of said Circuit Court were afterwards affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States at its December term, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.
Approved, March 3, 1859.
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