Chapter LI. for the relief of Peters and Pond
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Chap. LI.— An Act for the relief of Peters and Pond. March 2, 1831. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to pay to Peters and Pond, merchants of Boston, theMoiety of proceeds of schr. Anna, &c., to be refunded. sum of seventeen thousand eight hundred and twenty-two dollars and forty-five cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; being the moiety paid into the treasury of the United States on the sale of their schooner Anna and her cargo, which had been seized and condemned for a violation of the revenue laws by the district court of the United States for the district of Georgia, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, deducting therefrom the duties accruing on said moiety.
Approved, March 2, 1831.