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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · March 2, 1889 · Chapter 443

Chapter 443.

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CHAP. 443.— An act for the relief of John R. Wood, John T. Ballard, and John T. Belew.March 2, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,John R. Wood, John T. Ballard, and John T. Belew. Relieved from payment of tax. etc. That John R. Wood, as principal, and John T. Ballard and John T. Belew, as sureties, be, and they are hereby, relieved of the payment of the tax on one hundred and fifty-four gallons of brandy, amounting to the sum of one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and sixty cents, said brandy having been destroyed by fire on the third day of August, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, near the village of White Hall (Moorman’s River post-office), in the County of Albemarle, State of Virginia, and that they be further relieved of all penalties incident to the non-payment of said tax. 1314 Sec. 2.
That the United States district attorney for the westernSuit to be dismissed. district of Virginia be, and he is hereby, directed to dismiss any and all proceedings which may have been or may hereafter be instituted against the said John R. Wood and the said John T. Ballard and John T. Belew, or either of them for the payment of the said tax or penalties. Approved, March 2, 1889.
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