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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 14 STAT. · July 25, 1866 · Chapter CCLX

Chapter CCLX. *for the Relief of Daniel Winslow*

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CHAP. CCLX.— An Act *for the Relief of Daniel Winslow*. July 25, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Daniel Winslow and his representatives relieved from contract and from judgments thereon. That Daniel Winslow and his legal representatives be, and they hereby are, released and relieved from all judgments, and from all liens and encumbrances of said judgments in favor of the United States, heretofore obtained against said Winslow, in any district court of the United States, upon a contract entered into by said Winslow with the chief of the bureau of provisions and clothing, to deliver at the navy yard in Charlestown, Massachusetts, eighteen hundred barrels of navy beef; which contract was dated September twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and forty-six; meaning hereby to release the said Winslow from all liability arising out of said contract, or any bond given to secure the performance thereof, and from all judgments founded on the same, whether against himself a loue, or himself and his sureties, but not to relieve him of any levies heretofore made, or sums paid on said judgments.
Approved, July 25, 1866.
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