Chapter VII. *for the relief of Jechonias Bigot and Benjamin Lecraft, sureties of James Manney, late collector of the customs for the district of Beaufort, in the state of North Carolina.*Feb. 6, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and heProceedings against sureties of J
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Chap. VII.— An Act *for the relief of Jechonias Bigot and Benjamin Lecraft, sureties of James Manney, late collector of the customs for the district of Beaufort, in the state of North Carolina.*Feb. 6, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and heProceedings against sureties of J. Manney, late collector, &c., to be suspended. is hereby directed to suspend all further proceedings to collect from Jechonias Pigot and Benjamin Lecraft sureties of James Manney, late collector of the customs for the district of Beaufort, in the state of North Carolina, any portion of the balance of one thousand and forty-four dollars and twelve cents, stated to be due from them to the United States, on the twenty-eighth day of January now last past, upon a judgment or judgments rendered against them as such sureties, and that he discharge the said sureties from all further liability under the said judgments, it appearing that the said sureties have paid and satisfied the balance due from them, as stated by the Comptroller of the Treasury, on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, together with the interest upon that balance; but that in consequence of an error in the statement of the Comptroller before mentioned, a further balance is now claimed of the sum above stated, after the said sureties have permitted the property of their principal, placed in their hands for their indemnity, to go from them in payment of other debts of the said Manney, they having retained a sum sufficient to discharge their whole liability as stated by the said Comptroller on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, aforesaid.
Approved, February 6, 1839.