Chapter LXVII. for the relief of Colonel William Duane
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Chap. LXVII.— An Act for the relief of Colonel William Duane. May 13, 1824. *Be it enacted, &c., * The accounting officers of the treasury department, to settle the accounts of Col. W. Duane, and allow him for copies of the Cavalry System. That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to settle the accounts of Colonel William Duane, and that they be directed, in that settlement, to allow him the sum of three dollars seventy-five cents per volume for one thousand copies of the Cavalry System of Discipline, which he was to furnish the war department, deducting therefrom the price for which said volumes were sold by said Duane; that the said Duane be also allowed a credit of five hundred dollars, which he received from General Bloomfield, on the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and repaid on the fifteenth of April following:
Proviso.*Provided, nevertheless,* That, in settling the accounts aforesaid, previous to the advance of any balance that may be due said Duane, the amount of a judgment, obtained against him by the government of the United States, be deducted therefrom. Approved, May 13, 1824.