Chapter LXXIX. for the Relief of the legal Representatives of Pierre Menard, Josiah T
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Chap. LXXIX.— An Act for the Relief of the legal Representatives of Pierre Menard, Josiah T. Betts, Jacob Feaman, and Edmund Roberts, of the State of Illinois, Sureties of Felix St. Vrain, late Indian Agent, deceased. Aug. 3, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, $427.40, due F. St Vrain, deceased, with interest, to be refunded to his sureties. That there be refunded to the legal representatives of Pierre Menard, Josiah T.
Betts, Jacob Feaman, and Edmund Roberts, sureties of Felix St. Vrain, late Indian agent, and now deceased, the sum of four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty cents, being the amount of salary of said St. Vrain remaining unpaid at the time of his death, and the sum of two hundred dollars, paid by him to Mr. Farnham, to hand to gunsmith and blacksmith, and for which his account was never credited, with six per cent, interest per annum from the thirteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, being the time when the execution against the sureties of said St, Vrain was satisfied; the said sums and interest to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to pay the said sums of money and interest to the above-named persons, in the same proportions and amounts as they severally paid towards the satisfaction and discharge of said judgment, to be ascertained by him in such manner as he may direct.
Approved, August 3, 1846.