Chapter XCV. for the relief of Ebenezer Stevens and others
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Chap. XCV.— An Act for the relief of Ebenezer Stevens and others. March 3, 1823. *Be it enacted, &c., * That there be paid, after the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, out of any moneys inAward to be paid to the representatives of Comfort Sands, and others. the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Ebenezer Stevens and Austin L. Sands, representatives of Richardson Sands, deceased; to Robert Morris, surviving assignee, under the late United States’ law of bankruptcy, of Comfort Sands, or to whomsoever shall appear to the Comptroller of the Treasury to be entitled to his share; and to Joshua Sands, the sum of twenty-two thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars, in full satisfaction of their claim upon the United States under an award of referees in favor of them and others, dated at New York, on the twenty-fifth of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and the contracts therein referred to; one third part of which sum is to be paid to each of the said Richardson, Comfort, and Joshua Sands, or to their legal representatives as above mentioned: *Provided,* That, before such payment, each of the said parties shallProviso. relinquish to the United States all further claim against them on account of said award, and the several contracts upon which that award was founded.
Approved, March 3, 1823.