Chapter CXLVIII. for the relief of John Willard and Thomas P
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Chap. CXLVIII.— An Act for the relief of John Willard and Thomas P. Baldwin. May 24, 1828. *Be it enacted, &c., * $393.91 to be endorsed, as of same date, on a judgment recovered against them. That the District Attorney for the Northern District of the Court of the United States, in the state of New York, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to endorse, as of the same date, on a judgment recovered in said court in favor of the United States, against the said John Willard and Thomas P.
Baldwin, the sum of three hundred and ninety-three dollars and ninety-one cents, being the amount suspended by the proper accounting officers of the treasury, Proviso.on settling the accounts of the said Thomas P. Baldwin: *Provided,* Said judgment has not been paid; but if said judgment shall be paid before the taking effect of this act, then the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and ninety-three dollars and ninety-one cents to the said John Willard and Thomas P.
Baldwin, if said payment shall be, or shall have been made by them jointly; but, if not, then to the one who shall prove to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Proviso.the Treasury that such payment was made by him: *Provided,* That, before a partial satisfaction of said judgment shall be made, or before any money shall be refunded, as the case may be, under the provisions of this act, a bond in the penal sum of eight hundred dollars, drawn in favor of the United States, with security approved by the Secretary of TWENTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 149, 150, 151, 152, 153. 1828. 391 the Treasury, shall be lodged in the treasury department, conditioned to pay to the United States each and every sum of money the United States shall be obliged to pay to the persons named in the list of suspended items, as aforesaid, or to their legal representatives. Approved, May 24, 1828.