Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to direct the cancellation of two separate bonds given for the payment of duties at the port of Philadelphia, by John F. Ohl as principal, and Lewis Mayer as surety, dated respectively the eighth day of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, to wit: one numbered seven thousand one hundred and five, for the sum of one thousand and seventy-four dollars and seventy-nine cents, and the other numbered seven thousand one hundred and six, for the sum of one thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy-nine cents; and also to repay to the said John F. Ohl, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum of money not exceeding four hundred and twenty dollars, on the production of satisfactory proof to the Secretary of the Treasury going to show that said sum, or any portion thereof, has heretofore been paid to the United States, for or on account of duties, on any of the articles of merchandise destroyed in the manner set forth in the papers attached to House report No. seven hundred and twenty-five, first session, thirtieth Congress.

Approved, March 3, 1849.