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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · May 19, 1824 · Chapter CIX

Chapter CIX. for the relief of Benjamin Desobry

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Chap. CIX.— An Act for the relief of Benjamin Desobry. May 19, 1824. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Collector of the Customs for the District of New York, be authorized to issue certificates of debenture to BenjaminTo issue certificates of debenture to him. Desobry, or his attorney, legally constituted and appointed, for the amount of drawback of duties on forty bags of coffee, shipped on board the ship Caroline, to Hamburg, from the port of New York, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-two, which shipment was entered at the custom-house for exportation, but the oath required by law was not taken, nor the bond given within the time prescribed by law, by reason of sickness: *Provided,* That the said Benjamin Desobry, or hisProviso. attorney, legally constituted and appointed, shall in all other respects comply with the law, to entitle him to debenture.
Approved, May 19, 1824.
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