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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · May 27, 1840 · Chapter XXIX

Chapter XXIX. *for the relief if John H

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Chap. XXIX.— An Act *for the relief if John H. Sheppard, administrator of Abiel Wood.*May 27, 1840. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the attorney of the United States for the districtSatisfaction of a certain judgment against him to be entered. of Maine be, and he hereby is, authorized to enter satisfaction of a judgment rendered in the first circuit court of the United States, in and for the district of Maine, to the use of the United States, in the name of Abraham F. Howe and Benjamin Howard, against John H.
Sheppard, administrator of Abiel Wood, on a judgment recovered by the said Howe and Howard against Abiel Wood in January, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, in the Boston court of common pleas, in the state of Massachusetts, and assigned to the United States by the said Howe, with the assent and authority of the said Howard, on the twenty-second of September, eighteen hundred and thirty. Approved, May 27, 1840.
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