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TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cir; 43. 1847. 689 exceeding in the aggregate the sum of one thousand and eighty-one respectivelos es, dollars, being the value of property forcibly taken from them by the 3* ¢¤¤¤¤di¤zi¤ pawnee Indians at or near the head of Grand Island, on the Platte or $fo8,_°€gl°g“° Nebraska River; and that the sum of one thousand and eighty-one dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose aforesaid. Approved, March 2, 1847. Can. XLII1. — An Aetfvr the Relief af the Bank of [the] Jlietrapalis. March 2, 1847. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ryf Representatives J the _ United States of America in Cbngress assembled, That the Secretary Secretary of ef the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay ;:;;,’°jf)“"Y *1** to the Bank of the Metropolis the sum of three thousand three hun- Bank or Metigph dred and seventy-one dollars and ninety-four cents, with interest 0]]** $337l We thereon from the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and 6,,, thirty-eight ; which sum and interest, in an action commenced by the 1638. United States, at the instance of the Post-Office Department, in the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for the county of Washington, against the said bank, to recover the amount of money therein on deposit at the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, for the service of said department, and in which action the said bank filed, by way of set-of}, certain demands arising from acceptances of said department in favor of certain contractors, discounted and held by the bank, and protested for non—payment, and also a certain demand arising from an overdraft made on said bank by the agent for disbursing the fund appropriated for the contingent expenses of said Post-Oliice Department, was found by the jury, under instructions from the court, to be due from the United States to the said bank; and on which finding, a writ of error was taken by the United States from the judgment of the said court, and the said judgment afiirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States, at January term, eighteen hundred and forty-one. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Treasurer of the Uni- Treasurer dtted States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit the {§;“j‘,‘i,n{‘°0,?',‘Q,,l;f said Bank of the Metropolis for the amounts charged by it in his tmp,,;;, y.,, ,;,8. account therewith, for the service of the said Post-Office Department, :¤¤Q¤¤?$ °}*;?—’H¢d under date of the tenth day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty- CK,,;; l;`,,,,,?,,:;:,; seven, the same being the amounts of said set-offs, so established in asfollows. said action, as follows, to wit: For one acceptance in favor of James Reeside, contractor, dated _ Fcracccptcmcc seventeenth October, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, at ninety days, i§_‘ci;‘Q3;_°f ‘l“""’s for four thousand five hundred dollars, with interest to tenth October, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and cost of protest, four thousand nine hundred and sixty-six dollars, and seventy-five cents. For one acceptance in favor of James Reeside, contractor, dated _ Foracceptanee twentieth October, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, at ninety days, §‘£;g;°{JQ£'§; for one thousand dollars, with interest to tenth October, eighteen Octoberiao, 12:35, hundred and thirty-seven, and cost of protests, one thousand one hun- {H l%é»9g0» &°-» clred and five dollars and twenty-tive cents. ’ ` For one acceptance in favor of James Reeside, contractor, dated _ Forucceptance twenty-third October, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, at ninety §'BE';g;°fJ3;Q§s days, for four thousand five hundred dollars, with interest to tenth Ocwbe,’g;;, 1835, October, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven; and cost of protest, four Y0; ggéiuggor &¢-, thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents. 8 * ‘ For Gne acceptance in favor of James Reeside, contractor, dated _ Pgcraccggtance twenty-eighth October, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, at ninety §‘c;3;,° $3 days, for three thousand dollars, with interest to tenth October, October 28, 1835, Von. IX. Pmv.-6