Chapter XV. for the relief of the widow and children of Benjamin W
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Chap. XV.— An Act for the relief of the widow and children of Benjamin W. Hopkins. Feb. 11, 1830. *Be it enacted, &c., * Payment to widow and children of B. W. Hopkins, for damages resulting from default of U.S., &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Harriet Strong, widow, Edwin W. Hopkins, and Maria A. Hopkins, children of Benjamin W. Hopkins, deceased, the sum of thirteen thousand two hundred and seventy dollars, being for damages sustained by the said Benjamin W.
Hopkins, in consequence of the government failing to furnish an engineer to lay out the fort at Mobile Point, at the time the contract commenced, *Provided, however,*Proviso. That from said sum of thirteen thousand two hundred and seventy dollars, there be deducted the amount of three judgments which the United States recovered in the Northern District of New York before the District Court of the United States at the January term of said court, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, against Roswell Hopkins and Phaddeus Laughlin, sureties of Benjamin W.
Hopkins, on three different custom-house bonds, amounting, with the costs, to one thousand seven hundred sixty-two dollars and thirty-one cents; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to discharge said judgments, and to release and cause to be re-delivered to the owner, any and all property on which any execution or executions which have been issued on said judgments or either of them, has been levied. Approved, February 11, 1830.