Chapter I. for the Relief of Gamaliel Taylor (late Marshal of the District of Indiana) and his Sureties
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Chap. I.— An Act for the Relief of Gamaliel Taylor (late Marshal of the District of Indiana) and his Sureties. Dec. 24, 1850. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Gamaliel Taylor, marshal, and his sureties released from certain liabilities. That Gamaliel Taylor, late marshal of the State of Indiana, together with the sureties on his official bond, dated March fourteenth, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-six, be, and they are hereby, released from all liability in consequence of the acts of said Gamaliel Taylor, in the levy and execution of a certain “distress warrant,” issued from the office of the solicitor of the treasury, on the twenty-eighth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, directed against James T.
Legal proceedings against him to be dismissed.Pollock, late receiver at Crawfordsville, Indiana; and that the proper officer of the treasury department be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to dismiss any and all suits that may have been instituted, and are now pending, and to suspend proceedings upon any judgment that may have been rendered in favor of the United States against said Gamaliel Taylor and said sureties, or any one of them, growing out of the execution of said distress warrant.
Approved, December 24, 1850.