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96 APPENDIX-—To Gales & Seaton's -Register.
18th Congress,
2d Session
SS' ^ Laws of the United States.
proposition, and suc.i person or persons shall fail or refuse to enter into an obligation, with {rood and sufficient
security, to perform such contract within the time required by the Postmaster General, in such advertise me nt,
such person or persons shall forfeit and pay so much money as shall be the difference between the amount
contained in such proposal, and the amount the Postmaster General shall have to pay for tile same transpor-
tation of the mail on such route or routes; which sum may be recovered by the Postmaster General in an action
on the case.
Sec. 45. And be it further enacted, That, if any person shall buy, receive, or conceal, or aid in buying, receiv-
ing', or concealing, any article mentioned in the twenty-first section of this act, knowing the same to have been
stolen or embezzled from the mail of the United States, or out of any Post Office, or from any person having
the custody of the sairl mail, or the letters sent, or to be sent therein; or if any person shall be accessary after the
fact, to any robbery of the carrier of the mail of the United States, or other persons entrusted therewith, of such
mail, or of part thereof, every person, so offending, shall, on conviction thereof, pay a fine not exceeding two
thousand dollars, and be imprisoned and confined to hard labor for any time not exceeding ten years. And such
person or persons, so offending, may be tried and convicted, without the principal offender being first tried, pro-
vided such principal offender has fled from justice, or cannot be found, to be put on his trial.
Sec. 46. And be it further enacted, That all acts, and parts of acts which have been passed for the establish-
ment and regulation of the General Post Office, shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed: Provided, That
the act, entitled " An act concerning public contracts," approved on the twenty-first of April, one thousand
eight hundred and eight, shall not be affected nereby, but shall remain in full force and virtue : And provided,
also, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect, or extend to, any offence committed against the
laws, now in force, intended by this act to be repealed ; but the same shall be prosecuted, and determined, and
punished, according to the said laws ; nor to affect any existing contract, or debt, or demand, due to or from the
Department; but all such offences, crimes, debts, duties, demands, and contracts, shall be held in force, and ad-
judged, determined, and executed according to the present laws in force, as though this act had not passed j nor
shall it affect any appointments to office made under the laws hereby repealed.
Approved, March 3, 1825.
AN A CT for the relief of Samuel Russell.
Be it enacted, c"'c. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby,
authorized and directed to pay to Samuel Kussell, late Deputy Commissary of Purchases, the sum of eighteen
hundred dollars, as an allowance for clerk hire, office rent, superintending the making up of army clothing,
and for issuing public supplies, during the late war; and that the same be paid out of any money in the
Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1825.
AN ACT for the relief of Paul Chase.
Be it enacted, cZc. That Paul Chase, and Samuel Clark his security, be, and they are hereby, discharged from
the payment of the sum of three thousand two hundred dollars due to the United States, on account of duties on
merchandise imported into the United Slates, prior to the occupation of the town of St. Mary's, in Georgia, by the
tiritish forces under the command of Admiral Cockburn, in eighteen hundred and fifteen, which merchandise was
captured and carried out of the United States by the enemy.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the United States Attorney for the District of Georgia, be, and he is
hereby required to enter a credit of three thousand two hundred dollars, on any judgment or judgments hereto-
fore recovered, in the District Court of the United States, against the said Paul Chase and his said security, on
account of duties claimed by the United Stales, on merchandise so imported into the United States by the said
Paul Chase; and also for the costs which may have accrued thereon.
Approved, March 3, 1825.
.7.V ACT for the relief of Moses Shepherd.
Jie it enacted, £iu. That there be paid to Moses Shepherd, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise ap-
propriated, the sum of thirty-three thousand six hundred and seventy-four dollars and thirty six cents, in full for
balance due him.
Approved, March 3, 1825.
AN ACT for the relief of William Little, administrator of Minor Reeves.
Beit enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officer of the Treasury be directed to settle and allow the claim
of William Little, administrator of Minor Reeves, for a horse and equipage lost in the campaign against the Semi-
nole Indians, upon the same principles that other claims have been settled, for similar losses, under the act approv-
ed the fourth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, entitled " An act for the relief of the officers, volunteers,
and other persons, engaged in the late campaign against the Seminole Indiansand that the amount, so allowed,
be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1825.
AN ACT making appropriation to satisfy certain balances due to the Commissioners and Secretaries of Land
Claims in Florida.
Be it enacted, tic. That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise
appropriated, the sum of three thousand three hundred and eighty-six dollars and five cents, to satisfy certain
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