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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · June 17, 1844 · Chapter CLIX

Chapter CLIX. *for the relief of Hiram Murch.* June 17, 1844. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Hiram Murch the sum of fifty dollars, the 117 4c2 TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

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Chap. CLIX.— An Act *for the relief of Hiram Murch.* June 17, 1844. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Hiram Murch the sum of fifty dollars, the 117 4c2 TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 160, 161, 162, 163. 1844. 930 One moiety of a certain fine to be refunded. same being one moiety of the penalty collected of the said Murch, by the collector of Appalachicola, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, for a breach of the revenue laws, and paid into the treasury, it having been made to appear that the said penalty was incurred without any intention, on the part of the petitioner, of violating the law.
Approved, June 17, 1844.
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