Chapter IX. for the Relief of the Sureties of the late Captain A
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CHAP. IX.— An Act for the Relief of the Sureties of the late Captain A. R. Hetzell.Dec. 22, 1870. Whereas it appears that the accounts of the late Captain A. R. Hetzell,Preamble. assistant quartermaster of the United States army, who died during the Mexican war, were settled at the treasury on the fifteenth day of676FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. 1870. February, eighteen hundred and fifty, and a balance found due was paid to his representatives, but that by a subsequent settlement, made on the fourteenth of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, a balance was ascertained against the officer, to recover which suit has been brought and is now pending against his surviving sureties:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the said claim, only asSureties of Captain A. R. Hetzell released from liability. against the said sureties and their heirs and personal representatives, is remitted and forever discharged; and the suit pending against them, whether before or after judgment, shall be no further prosecuted, but shall be dismissed, and full satisfaction, as against the said sureties, entered of record.
Approved, December 22, 1870.