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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS or rm: UNITED STATE S, Passed at the Jirst session, which was begun and held in the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of December, 1815, and ended on the thirtieth day of April, 1816. Jnrms Munson, President of the United States; J om: GAILLARD, President of the Senate pro tempore; Hnuny CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I. Im 1,7 1816 Gun. IV.-An Act for the reliq" of Henry Fanning. ' Be it enacted by the Senate and House { Representatives of the To be released United States ¢f_Ameriea in Congress assem led, That the Secretary from imprison· of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to cause m°¤*· to be discharged from his imprisonment, Henry Fanning, of the city of New York, in all cases in which he, the said Henry Fanning, is imprisoned by virtue of mesne or final process, issued on any debt or judgment due to the United States: Provided, however, that any estate, real or personal, which he the said Henry Fanning, may have, or which he may hereafter acquire, shall be liable to the satisfaction of the debts and judgments due to the United States, on which he the said Henry Fanning is imprisoned, in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged. And provided further, that nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to aifect the liability of any coobligor, that may have been bound with the said Henry Fanning, for the payment of any sum or sums of money, to the United States. Approved, January 17, 1816. Srxrurs I. Im 1,7 1816. Gun. V.-—An Act for the relief if Jonathan B. Eastman. Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the war ,;,,,,0,,,,, w be department be, and they are hereby authorized to audit and settle the rwttlcd. dw. accounts of Jonathan B. Eastman, district pay-master of the lakes, and to allow him, in the settlement thereof, such credits as may appear equitable and just. Approved, January 17, 1816. Srsrvrs I. ··—····— yam 22, 18l6· Cnn. VI.-An Act for the reliq' of Josqah Anderson. Be it enacted, &·e., That the sum of three hundred and twenty-two Payment ,0 b,, dollars and sixty-eight cents, paid by Joseph Anderson, on the fifth day l>l¤¤9d to his of November, one thousand eight hundred and five, on account of the

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