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900 TWEN'1'Y-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II1. Ch. 154, 155, 156, 157. 1843. year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, to entitle the same to proceeding, a drawback of duties, is hereby extended one year; and the Secretary ¤g¤i¤S§ S¤r¤¤i¢¤ of the Treasury is authorized and required to cause all proceedings f"' d““°‘"h°'°' upon the judgments obtained against the sureties on bonds given for the on, stayed, &.c. . . _ . . . . . duties upon the importation of said railroad iron, to stay for and during the said term of one year; and if, at or before the expiration of the said one year, it shall be proved to his satisfaction that the whole or any part of the said railroad iron has been actually and permanently laid upon any railroads in the United States, then to order and direct the whole, or a proportionate part, of the said judgments to be marked satisfied, upon the defendant paying the costs. Approved, March 3, 1843. Srawrs III. —···i· March 3, 1843. CHAP. CLIV.-—-dn Jcijbr the relief of the legal representative of Robert YI Spence. Be it enacted, rfc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he A credit to be hereby is, authorized to allow to the legal representative of Robert T. ggfwed h’“'· Spence, a credit of four hundred and twenty dollars and ten cents, ` with interest on two hundred and forty-five dollars and ten cents thereof from the time that the United States calculated and recovered interest in the judgment obtained by them against the said representative, on account of the liability of her intestate as security of G. K. Spence, on a balance appearing upon the books of the treasury department to be due from the said G. K. Spence for treasury notes by him received in eighteen hundred and fifteen, and like interest on one hundred and seventy-five dollars thereof from the same time, provided that time be not anterior to the ninth day of November, eighteen hundred and nineteen; and if it bc, then from the said ninth day of November, eighteen [hundred] and nineteen, upon a judgment in favor of the United States, and against the said representative, in a suit upon a bond executed by _her intestate as the security of the said G. K. Spence. Approved, March 3, 1843. S’rn·ru·rz III. ——·—— Mai-eh 3, 1843, CHAP. CLV.--./2n Act for the relief of IIan1•ahJenkina, widow [of] James Jenkins, ""°_""" deceased. Be it enacted, Q1., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, To bg placed directed to place the name of Hannah Jenkins, widow of James Jenon pension roll. kins, on the pension roll, and that she be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a pension for eleven m0nths’ ser- Agtqf July 7, vice of her husband in the revolutionary war, under the act of July 1838, ch. 189. seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. Approved, March 3, 1843. Srrrure III. ————— March 3, 1g4g_ Cum. CLVI. — An Act for the relief if Ruth Muthiot. Be it enacted, d}~c., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, To bg placed directed to place the name of Ruth Mathiot, widow of George Mathiot, on pension roll. a soldier of the Revolution, on the pension roll, and to pay her the sum of seventy-one dollars per annum, from the fourth of April, eighteen hundred and forty, during her natural life. Approved, March 3, 1843. Srururn III. --——— March 3, 1843. CHAP. CLVII. ·-An Act for the relief of Peters, Moore, and Company. Be it enacted, rfc., That there be paid to Peters, Moore, and Com- Paymgmfor pany, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, trunspcrtingibe belonging to the revenues of the Post Office Department, the sum of mul- two thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents, in