Chapter XXIV. *for the relief of Thomas J
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Chap. XXIV.— An Act *for the relief of Thomas J. Lawler and Smith M. Miles.*March 7, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Thomas J. Lawler, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,T. J. Lawler to be paid for maintaining negroes. under acts of April 20, 1818. ch 91, and March 3, 1819, ch. 101. four hundred and ninety-one dollars and seventy-three cents, for maintaining four negroes from the fourteenth of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, to March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, which were delivered to him and kept in confinement under the acts of April twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and March third, eighteen hundred and nineteen, prohibiting the slave trade; and for maintaining Martin Lee one hundred and two days, under a charge of 706 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. 1838. robbing the mail, who was turned out of the prison in the western district of Louisiana, from its being abandoned on account of the cholera. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of the TreasuryPayment to S. M. Miles for medical services. pay to Smith M. Miles, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, ninety-one dollars and fifty cents, for attending on the negroes mentioned in the preceding section, as a physician, during their sickness, when so confined, and furnishing them medicine.
Approved, March 7, 1838.