Chapter CXXV. for the relief of Algernon S
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Chap. CXXV.— An Act for the relief of Algernon S. Thruston.March 2, 1833. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he To be credited with the difference between the amount allowed and the intrinsic value of doubloons. is hereby, authorized to credit the account of Algernon S. Thruston, late collector of the customs at Key West, with the sum of eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty-five cents; being the difference between seven hundred and fifty Spanish doubloons, transferred principally to him by his predecessor, at sixteen dollars each, which was the current value of the same at that port, and the amount allowed, of eleven thousand one hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty-five cents, at the Bank of the United States, in Charleston, considered as the intrinsic value of the said doubloons.
Approved, March 2, 1833.