one, or more sureties, payable to the collector for the district of Ports. mouth, in the State of New Hampshire, or to the collector of the district of Boston and Charlestown, and who have suffered a loss of property by the late conflagration at Portsmouth, shall be and hereby are allowed to take up, or have cancelled, all bonds heretofore given for duties as aforesaid, upon giving to the said collector or collectors new bonds, with one or more suretics, to the satisfaction of the said collector or collectors, for the sums of their former bonds respectively, payable in twelve months from and after the day of payment specified in the bonds to be taken up and cancelled, as aforesaid; and the said collectors are hereby authorized to give up or cancel all such bonds, upon the receipt of others, as described in this act; which last mentioned bonds shall be proceeded with, in all respects, like other bonds which are taken by collectors for duties due to the United States: Provided, hourger, That nothing in this act contained shall extend to bonds which had fallen due prior to the twenty-fourth day of December last.
Approved, February 10, 1807.
CHAP. X.-In Act for the relief of Edmund Briggs. Be it enacted, dc, That the collector for the district of Newport be, and he hereby is directed to pay to Edmund Briggs, owner of the schooner Phebe, or his agent, the amount of bounty, or allowance arising on a fishing voyage, which was made in the said vessel, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, upon satisfactory proof being exhibited to the said collector, that the said schooner was employed during the four months of the fishing season.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act, intituled "An act for the relief of Robert Patton, and others," passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and five, as is contained in the second section thereof, be, and the same hereby is repealed. Approved, February 10, 1807.
ChAP. XI.-An act the relief of William Hearn.
Be it enacted, sc., That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to inquire, by himself, or by some trusty agent whom he may appoint for the purpose, into the pecuniary circumstances of William Hearn, now imprisoned, by virtue of a writ of execution, in favor of the United States, in the prison of Washington county, district of Columbia; and if said Hearn shall assign and convey to the secretary aforcsaid, all the estate, of every kind and description, which he may own, or be entitled to, in possession, remainder, or reversion, to the proper use and benefit of the Uaited States; or if he, the said Hearn, shall prove to the satisfaction of the secretary, or agent foresaid, that he has no estate, and has not transferred all or any part of his property, with intent to avoid the pryment of the sum for which he is imprisoned, or to defrand the United States; them the secretary of the treasury shall give to said Ilearn, a certificate, stating what he has done in the pre mises: and upon said Heurn producing such certificate to the marshal of the district of Columbia, he shall discharge said Hearn from his imprisominent: Provided, in case the certificate shall specify that the said Hearn has satisfed the secretary, or agent aforesaid, that he had no estate, and of course has made no assigament, then the said Hearn shall either pay, or execute to the marshal, his obligation, payable to the United States, for all fees and expenses, which have arisen in conse quence of his, said Flearn's imprisonment, before he be discharged as aforeshid: And providel, That nothing in this act shall be construed, to discharge any other person from any liableness to the payment of,
