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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · March 3, 1839 · Chapter CLVI

Chapter CLVI. *for the relief of Isaac Lilley.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwisePayment to him of amount which accrued to U

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Chap. CLVI.— An Act *for the relief of Isaac Lilley.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwisePayment to him of amount which accrued to U. S. by a certain forfeiture.1817, ch. 22. appropriated, to Isaac Lilley, of the state of Maine, the sum of four hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents; that being the amount which accrued to the United States from the forfeiture of the brigantine Planter, the property of the said Isaac Lilley, which was incurred by a violation of “An act making reservation of certain public lands to supply timber for naval purposes,” without wilful negligence or any intention of fraud on the part of the said Lilley or of the master of said vessel.
Approved, March 3, 1839.
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