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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · June 28, 1809 · Chapter XIII

Chapter XIII. authorizing the discharge of Joseph Wilkinson, junior, from his imprisonment

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Chap. XIII.— An Act authorizing the discharge of Joseph Wilkinson, junior, from his imprisonment. June 28, 1809. *Be it enacted, &c., * That Joseph Wilkinson, junior, late collector of To be discharged from his imprisonment.the port of Detroit, in the Michigan territory, be discharged from his imprisonment, upon a judgment obtained against him in favor of the United States: *Provided, however,* That he shall first assign and convey all the estate, real and personal, which he may now own, or be entitled to, to some person or persons, for the use and benefit of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *And provided also,* That the said judgment shall remain in full force against any estate which the said Joseph Wilkinson, junior, may hereafter acquire, and that process may, at any time, be thereupon issued against the same.
Approved, June 28, 1809. 86 11 2 1810 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE ELEVENTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of November,* 1809, *and ended the first day of May,* 1810. James Madison, President; George Clinton, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Andrew Gregg, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 9th to the 19th day of December;
John Gaillard, President of the Senate, pro tempore, on the 2d day of March, and from the 20th day of April to the 1st day of May, 1810; J. B. Varnum, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II.
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