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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · March 3, 1831 · Chapter CXI

Chapter CXI. for the relief of John Nicholson

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Chap. CXI.— An Act for the relief of John Nicholson. March 3, 1831. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the proper officers of the Treasury settle and Allowance for maintenance of Africans, &c.pay to John Nicholson, Marshal of the eastern district of Louisiana, such sums as may reasonably be due, or may hereafter become due, to him, for the care, custody, maintenance and clothing of such Africans as may have been brought into the port of New Orleans, and legally TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 112, 113, 114. 1831. 467 committed to his custody by order of the court of the United States for the said district, and that such payment be made out of any funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1831.
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