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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · March 3, 1825 · Chapter LXIX

Chapter LXIX. for the relief of Captain Richard Hightower

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Chap. LXIX.— An Act for the relief of Captain Richard Hightower. March 3, 1825. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the proper accounting officers of the treasury$500 to be placed to the credit of Capt. Richard Hightower, the am’t of a judgment obtained against him by the U.S. department admit to the credit of Captain Richard Hightower, the sum of five hundred dollars, and if that sum shall exceed the amount of his account, or the judgment which the United States have obtained against the said Hightower, that such remaining balance be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1825.
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