Chapter 141. for the relief of W
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CHAP. 141.— An Act for the relief of W. H. Powell.Feb. 18, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,W. H. Powell, and Company.Payment to surviving partner of. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, directed to pay to W. H. Powell, surviving partner of the firm of W. H. Powell and Company, out of any money in 900 the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred and ninety-eight dollars and fifty-four cents, which shall be in full compensation for damage sustained by reason of an erroneous assessment, and seizure therefor, on or about the first day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy one, of a certain distillery bonded warehouse numbered sixteen, with cattle-pens, machinery, and fixtures, then owned by the firm of W.
H. Powell and Company, of the third collection district of Ohio, and in full satisfaction of all claims of the said W. H..Powell and Company, and of said W. II. Powell, against the Government of the United States, in any manner arising out of the said assessment, and the Judgment against firm and sureties released.seizure and sale or loss of said property : and to release the judgment now standing against said W. H. Powell and Company, and John Mills and others, of Dayton, Ohio, as their sureties.
Received by the President, February 7, 1887. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]