Chapter CLVI. for the relief of Mack and Conant
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Chap. CLVI.— An Act for the relief of Mack and Conant. May 22, 1826. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the proper accounting officers of the treasuryAccounts to be settled. department be, and are hereby, authorized and directed to settle and adjust the accounts of Mack and Conant, late partners, trading under the firm of Mack and Conant, at the city of Detroit, in the Michigan Territory, as well those of which they are possessed by purchase, as those which they hold in their own right as original claimants, upon the principles of equity and justice; and that the sums found due be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 2. Before any money shall be paid them, they shall enter bond to the U. S. &c. *And be it further enacted, *That, before any money shall be paid to said Mack and Conant, on accounts assigned to them, they, or either of them, shall enter a bond to the United States, with sureties to the acceptance of the Secretary of the Treasury, which shall be lodged with him, in double the amount of such accounts so allowed, conditioned for refunding such sums of money, and the interest thereon, as NINETEENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 157, 158. 1826. 355 may be hereafter allowed at the treasury department, to the original claimants of such accounts, on making proper proof that they are entitled thereto. Approved, May 22, 1826.