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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · Jan. 14, 1871 · Chapter XIX

Chapter XIX. to carry into Effect the Decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York in the Case of the Schooner L

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CHAP. XIX.— An Act to carry into Effect the Decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York in the Case of the Schooner L. S. Davis and her Cargo.Jan. 14, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the TreasuryAppropriation to pay decree of court in favor of Alexander M. Douglass. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, to pay into the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York, in the suit therein of Alexander M.
Douglass, libellant, against the schooner L. S. Davis, her tackle and cargo, the United States claimants, the sum of twenty-one thousand three hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty cents, being the amount of the decree to the libellant in said cause against the said claimants; to be disposed of by said court according to the decree therein. Approved, January 14, 1871.
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