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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · Feb. 13, 1839 · Chapter XXII

Chapter XXII. *for the relief of William B

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Chap. XXII.— An Act *for the relief of William B. Ferguson anti sureties.*Feb. 13, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Postmaster-General pay out of the postPayment of a judgment and costs against special agent, &c. office fund for mail depredations and special agents, four hundred and fifty dollars, the amount of a judgment and costs in the superior court of law in Guilford county, North Carolina, obtained at the Spring term, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, of said court, by John A.
Mebane, against William B. Ferguson, and for which judgment and costs J. J. M. Lindsay and William Adams are liable as bail of said Ferguson, who was special and confidential agent for the Post Office Department, and in consequence of his acts as such, said judgment and costs were recovered against him. Approved, February 13, 1839.
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