Chapter XXV. for the relief of George Johnston, Jonathan W
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Chap. XXV.— An Act for the relief of George Johnston, Jonathan W. Ford, Josiah Mason, and John English. April 3, 1828. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to George Johnston, Jonathan W. Ford, Josiah Mason, and John English, out ofPayment of their expenses in an action of trespass. any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand two hundred forty-one dollars and eighty-one cents, it being for their expenses in an action of trespass, and the amount of a judgment recovered against them in said action, by Jeremiah Weatherbee, in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, for seizing certain articles in trunks and boxes, which contained articles of merchandise, which George Johnston, one of the inspectors of the customs for the district of Boston, had probable cause, and good reason to believe, the said Weatherbee was importing into the United States against the laws thereof.
Approved, April 3, 1828.