Chapter CXXIV. for the relief of John Cooper, William Saunders, and William R
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Chap. CXXIV.— An Act for the relief of John Cooper, William Saunders, and William R. Porter. May 28, 1830. *Be it enacted, &c., * That a judgment obtained by the United States against John Cooper, William Saunders, and William R. Porter, in theCertain judgment against them to be held as security for the payment of $964.83 with interest. Circuit Court of the United States for the fifth Circuit and Virginia district, on the fifth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, for the sum of five thousand and thirty dollars and seventy-one cents, with interest from the twentieth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be henceforth held, and taken to have been, and to be, a security only for the payment to 430 TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 125, 126. 1830. the United States, of the sum of nine hundred and fifty-four dollars and eighty-three cents, with interest thereon from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and the costs of said judgment; and, also, as security for all such sums of money as may rightfully, hereafter, be paid at the treasury, in discharge of balances due the fourth regiment of Virginia militia, to pay which the funds were placed in the hands of William Estes, paymaster to that, regiment, and for whose default the judgment aforesaid was rendered against the defendants as his sureties.
Sec. 2. Proceedings on the j udgment *And be it further enacted, *That, whensoever any payment or payments shall hereafter be made by the treasury department which ought to have been made by the said William Estes, out of the money placed in his hands for the payment of balances due the fourth regiment of Virginia militia, of which he was paymaster, that the United States shall and may, from time to time, have writs of scire facias, on the judgment aforesaid, against the defendants, their executors, or administrators, to have execution for the sums so paid, with interest from the times of payment until the whole amount of said judgment shall be levied and paid.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted, *That, whenever demand of payment shall hereafter be made at the treasury department, by any of those who were entitled to be paid out of the funds so held by William Estes, payment of such demand shall be suspended, until notice thereof be given to the defendants, or such of them as may afterwards be proceeded against, and time allowed to investigate the justice of the claim at the said department and not elsewhere. Approved, May 28, 1830.