Chapter 291. For the relief of Louis Pelham
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CHAP. 291.— An Act For the relief of Louis Pelham.August 15, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Louis Pelham.Payment to. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, directed to pay to Louis Pelham, a citizen of New Harmony, in the State of Indiana, the sum of three thousand dollars, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, for money wrongfully paid out by and collected from him on the said fifth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, under certain confiscation proceedings against the property of Henry Pelham in the district court of the United States, in the State of Indiana; the sum of money mentioned having been illegally taken and collected from him by the marshal of the United States for said district court of Indiana upon the sale of a certain promissory note for seven thousand dollars, executed on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, due four years after date, payable to said Henry Pelham, and sold upon a venditioni exponas under a libel of information in said district court to the said Louis Pelham, when in fact the marshal of said district had not under the mandate of the writ of monition attached the said note, nor had he seized the same, nor had it ever been in his custody from the commencement to the end of the proceedings thereon.
The said note had not been at any time within the jurisdiction of said district court, and the said note was not at the time of the sale of the same, nor at the time of paying the said sum of money to the said marshal as the purchaser thereof by the said Louis Pelham, nor at any time thereafter by the marshal of said district court delivered to him, nor did he acquire any title whatsoever to said note under said proceedings. Approved, August 15, 1894.