Chapter XXIV. *for the Relief of Thomas Laurent, surviving Partner of the Firm of Benjamin and Thomas Laurent.* Feb. 5, 1859. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War he, and he is hereby, authorized and required to
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Chap. XXIV.— An Act *for the Relief of Thomas Laurent, surviving Partner of the Firm of Benjamin and Thomas Laurent.* Feb. 5, 1859. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War he, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Thomas Laurent, surviving partner of the firm of Benjamin and Thomas Laurent, or to his legal representatives, $15,000 and internet to be paid Thomas Laurent, or, &c.the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, with interest at the rate of six percent, yearly, from the eleventh day of November, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, being the amount paid by the same firm, on that day, to Major General Winfield Scott, in the city of Mexico, for the purchase of a house, in said city, out of the possession of which they were since ousted Proviso.by the Mexican authorities: *Provided,* The amount so appropriated shall be in full of their claim therefor against the United States.
Approved, February 5, 1859.