Chapter CXIX. for the relief of Paul Chase
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Chap. CXIX.— An Act for the relief of Paul Chase. March 3, 1825. *Be it enacted, &c., * Discharged from the payment of certain duties. That Paul Chase and Samuel Clark, his security, be, and they are hereby, discharged from the payment of the sum of three thousand two hundred dollars, due to the United States, on ac- EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 97. 1825. 337 count of duties on merchandise, imported into the United States, prior to the occupation of the town of St. Mary’s, in Georgia, by the British forces under the command of Admiral Cockburn, in eighteen hundred and fifteen, which merchandise was captured and carried out of the United States by the enemy.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the United States’ AttorneyThe attorney, &c. to enter credit to such effect. for the District of Georgia, be, and he is hereby, required to enter a credit for three thousand two hundred dollars, on any judgment or judgments heretofore recovered in the District Court of the United States, against the said Paul Chase and his said security, on account of duties claimed by the United States on merchandise so imported into the United States, by the said Paul Chase; and also for the costs, which may have accrued thereon.
Approved, March 3, 1825.