Chapter XCV. for the Relief of Simon de Visser and Jose Villarubia, of New Orleans
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Chap. XCV.— An Act for the Relief of Simon de Visser and Jose Villarubia, of New Orleans.March 2, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Simon de Visser and JoseSimon de Visser and Jose Villarubia released from certain penalties. Villarubia, jr., merchants of New Orleans, be, and they are hereby, released from the payment of all claims, penalties, and forfeitures which may legally exist against them, in favor of the United States, arising out of frauds committed in the custom-house of New Orleans by one Charles Meteye, they having been judicially declared to be entirely innocent of said frauds; and especially that they be released from the penalties and forfeitures claimed by reason of said frauds in two suits now pending in the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, in which the United States are plaintiffs, and said de Visser and Villarubia are defendants: *Provided,* That the said defendants shall pay all costs incurredTo pay costs. in said suits, and that the rights of the United States against said Charles Meteye be, and they are hereby, expressly reserved: *And provided further,* That the intent and meaning of this act shall in no case beMeaning of this act. construed into a release of the said Simon de Visser and Jose Villarubia of or from any duties justly chargeable upon the goods and merchandise entered in their behalf by the said Charles Meteye, in the absence of any fraud attempted or committed in their entry by the said Meteye.
Approved, March 2, 1861.