Chapter XIV. for the Relief of Elisabeth M
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Chap. XIV.— An Act for the Relief of Elisabeth M. Cocke, Widow of Major James H. Cocke, late Marshal of the District of Texas.April 6, 1860. Whereas the United States, on the twenty-ninth day of April, eighteenPreamble. hundred and fifty-seven, recovered judgment against Elizabeth M. Cocke, administratrix of James H. Cocke, late marshal, and his sureties, before the district court for the eastern district of Texas, for the sum of two thousand forty-one dollars and ninety-three cents; and it being made to appear that it would be just and equitable that the collection of the said judgment should not at this time be enforced: therefore *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 be, and hereby is, authorized to stay the issuance of execution on saidIssuing of execution on the judgment against Elizabeth M.
Cocke, to be stayed, if the sureties of James H. Cocke consent. judgment for such time as in his opinion will enable said administratrix to prosecute to final judgment a suit against Henry B. Martin, deputy marshal of said James H. Cocke, who received and embezzled the money for which said judgment in favor of the United States *versus* said Elizabeth M. Cocke, administratrix as aforesaid, was rendered: *Provided, however,* That before such stay of execution shall be granted, the securities of said James H.
Cocke shall enter their consent thereto on the records of the court in which said judgment was rendered. Approved, April 6, 1860.