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SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess.I. Ch. 130,138. 1820. 253 Snrvzru I. Can. CXXX.—An Act for the relief of Thomas Hunter. May 15, 18%. Be it enacted, ¢§·c., That the proper accounting olhcers of the treasury department audit and settle the claim of Thomas Hunter, late a Clfm *°3° soldier in the nineteenth regiment of United States infantry, for retained Edd ,,, bounty, pay, and travelling allowances, due him at the time of his ho- S. Johnson. nourable discharge; and to pay the amount due him to Sterling Johnson, his attorney in fact, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury: Provided, That the said Sterling Johnson shall make and deliver, Pwd8d_ to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, a bond, in such sum, and with such surety, as the said Comptroller may direct, to secure the United States against a repayment of the sum which may be allowed and paid as aforesaid. Approved, May 15, 1820. Srnurn I. CHA?. CXXXVIII.—An det for the reliq·` gr Richard Smyth. May 15, 1820. Be it enacted, &·c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is I hereby authorized, in the settlement of the account of Richard Smyth, Te be e,.ed,,ed late collector of direct taxes and internal revenue, for the territory of with amount of Michigan, to credit the said Smyth with the amount of public moneys :g;ilY;;’*;vas of which he was robbed in the month of April, eighteen hundred and robbed in April eighteen: Provided, That the amount so credited to him shall not ex- 1818. _ ceed the balance now standing against him on the books of the treasury. P’°"“°· Armzovnn, May 15, 1820. W