Chapter CCXXVI. for the discharge of sundry judgments against the former Marshall of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and for the relief of J. and W
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Chap. CCXXVI.— An Act for the discharge of sundry judgments against the former Marshall of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and for the relief of J. and W. Lippincott and Company.July 14, 1832. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury, Secretary of the Treasury to pay certain judgments against the late marshal of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. not otherwise appropriated, the amounts now severally due upon certain judgments rendered in favour of several Insurance Companies of the city of New York against the late Marshal of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, that is to say; upon a judgment rendered by the circuit court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, on the twenty-first of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, in favor of the Ocean Insurance Company, against John Conard, for thirty-one thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and fourteen cents; also, upon a judgment rendered in the same court on the twenty-second of May, eighteen 511TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess.I. Ch. 235. 1832. hundred and thirty, in favor of the Pacific Insurance Company, against the said John Conard, for forty-two thousand five hundred and ninety-one dollars and fifty-eight cents; also, upon a judgment rendered in the same court the twenty-second of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, in favor of the Neptune Insurance Company against the said John Conard, for eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and twenty-five cents; also, upon a judgment rendered in the same court, on the twenty-second of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, in favor of the National Insurance Companies against the said John Conard, for sixteen thousand eight hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents; also, upon a judgment rendered in the same court on the twenty-second of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, in favor of the American Insurance Company, for twenty thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and one cent; also, upon a judgment in the same court rendered the twenty-fourth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, in favor of the Niagara Insurance Company, for sixteen thousand two hundred and one dollars and five cents, against the said Conard; also, upon a judgment rendered in the same court the tenth of November, eighteen hundred and thirty, in favour of the Merchant’s Fire Insurance Company, against the said John Conard, for twenty-five thousand eight hundred and seventy-six dollars and twenty-five cents; also, upon a judgment rendered in the same court, the tenth of November, eighteen hundred and thirty, in favour of the Atlantic Insurance Company, against the said John Conard, for twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-five cents; together with the interest and all the Interest and legal costs allowed. legal costs which have accrued on the said judgments against the said Conard, either in the said circuit court or upon the affirmance of any of the said judgments in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Treasury Claims of Lippincott & Co. to be adjusted and settled. be, and he is hereby, authorized to adjust and settle the claims of J. and W. Lippincott and Company, of Philadelphia, for damages sustained by them in consequence of the illegal seizure of teas made in the said city of Philadelphia, by the collector of that port, acting under the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated: *Provided,* That no allowance Proviso. shall be made for any damages sustained by them other than the interest upon the amount of the property detained from them, and the difference in the value of said property at the time of the illegal seizure, and the time of its delivery to them on the substitution of other security.
Approved, July 14, 1832.