Chapter CCXXV. for the Relief of L
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CHAP. CCXXV.— An Act for the Relief of L. Merchant and Company and Peter Rosecrantz.July 22, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of thePayment to Leander Merchant for cotton wrongly taken; Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Leander Merchant, of the firm of L. Merchant and Company, the sum of one hundred and nine thousand four hundred and twelve dollars and eighty one cents, the proceeds of six hundred and eighty-four bales of cotton, the private property of said firm, taken erroneously and without due authority by the agents of the United States civil and military authorities at Mobile, Alabama, in the month of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, shipped to New York, sold by the United States, and the proceeds thereof paid into the treasury, the charges and expenses of the United States having been deducted therefrom; and to Peter Rosecrantz the sum of thirty-nine thousand twoto Peter Rosecrantz. hundred and fifty-three dollars and ten cents, the proceeds of two hundred and forty-one bales of cotton, the private property of said Rosecrantz, taken, sold, and appropriated at the same time and place, and in the same manner, the charges and expenses of the United States having likewise been deducted therefrom.
Approved, July 22, 1868.