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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · March 3, 1871 · Chapter CXCVII

Chapter CXCVII. for the Relief of Charles Cooper, Goshom A

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CHAP. CXCVII.— An Act for the Relief of Charles Cooper, Goshom A. Jones, Jerome Rowley, William Hannegan, and John Hannegan.March 3, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Charles Cooper, GoshomWilliam and John Hannegan and their sureties to be released from liability on their bond, &c. A. Jones, Jerome Rowley, William Hannegan, and John Hannegan be, and they are hereby, released and discharged from all liability to the United States under and by reason of their bond executed thereto to secure the faithful performance, by the said William Hannegan and John Hannegan, of their contract with the government of the United States for the improvement of Des Moines rapids, of the Mississippi river, in the State of Iowa, and that the action at law, now pending in the circuit court of the United States for the sixth circuit and northern district of Ohio to enforce said bond, be discontinued by the proper officer of the government, at the costs of the defendants.
Approved, March 3, 1871.
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