Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 164.
(Report No. 164.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 3, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Nelson, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of Elisha F. Richards.

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12 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the petition and papers of Elisha F.
Richards, of Onondaga county, New York, be referred to
the Third Auditor of the Treasury for examination and
settlement; and that the said Auditor be required to ascer-
tain, by depositions or other legal means of proof, the dif-
ference between the value of the property of the said Rich-
ards, seized in the winter of eighteen hundred and thirty-
eight by the deputy marshal of the northern district of
New York, for an alleged violation of the revenue laws
of the United States, and the amount of a judgment sub

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9 sequently recovered against the said Richards, in the dis-
trict court of the United States for the northern district of
New York, and paid by him.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secreta-
ry of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and
directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not other-
wise appropriated, to the said Elisha F. Richards, the dif-
ference in value (if any) which may be ascertained as
aforesaid, and certified by the Third Auditor of the Treas-
ury; and the sum so paid shall be in full for all losses and
expenses sustained or incurred by said Richards, in conse-
quence of said seizure.

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H R N^o 164
For the relief of Elisha F Richards

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HR Pass^d
May 26, 1848

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the petition and papers of Elisha F. Richards, of Onondaga county, New York, be referred to the Third Auditor of the Treasury for examination and settlement; and that the said Auditor be required to ascer- tain, by depositions or other legal means of proof, the dif- ference between the value of the property of the said Rich- ards, seized in the winter of eighteen hundred and thirty- eight by the deputy marshal of the northern district of New York, for an alleged violation of the revenue laws of the United States, and the amount of a judgment sub
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13 14 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9	sequently recovered against the said Richards, in the dis- trict court of the United States for the northern district of New York, and paid by him. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secreta- ry of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not other- wise appropriated, to the said Elisha F. Richards, the dif- ference in value (if any) which may be ascertained as aforesaid, and certified by the Third Auditor of the Treas- ury; and the sum so paid shall be in full for all losses and expenses sustained or incurred by said Richards, in conse- quence of said seizure.