Chapter LXVI. *for Ike relief of D
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Chap. LXVI.— An Act *for Ike relief of D. W. Haley.*April 20, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That the Postmaster-General of the United States issue his warrant for four hundred dollars in favor of D. W. Haley, for apprehending, and surrendering for trial, two slaves charged with havingPayment for arresting mail robbers. robbed the United States mail, in eighteen hundred and twenty-seven; one of whom was convicted before the district court of the United States in Mississippi, and sentenced to hard labor, and the other broke jail before trial, and escaped; and the Treasurer of the United States is directed, on the presentation of said warrant, to pay said sum of four hundred dollars, out of the moneys paid into the treasury for the service of the Post Office Department.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the Postmaster GeneralHis reasonable expenses to be ascertained arid paid. ascertain the reasonable expenses the said D. W. Haley paid in apprehending and delivering said slaves to jail for trial, and that be issue his warrant for said sum, in favor of D. W. Haley; and the Treasurer of the United States is directed, on the presentation of a warrant, to pay the sum so found, out of the moneys paid into the treasury for the service of the Post Office Department.
Approved, April 20, 1838.