Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—SECOND SESSION.
H. R. 718.
(Report No. 27.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
January 16, 1849.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. French, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported
the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of the executors, devisees, and heirs at law of
Thomas Fletcher, deceased, late of the State of Kentucky.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the executors, devisees, and heirs at law
of Thomas Fletcher, deceased, late of the State of Ken-
tucky, be, and they are hereby, released from all obligation
to the United States on the bond executed by C. Nicholas,
as paymaster, with Lewis Saunders, the said Thomas
Fletcher and Thomas Dye Owings as his securities, on
the twenty-eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and
seventeen, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars: Pro

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releasing any of the other obligors in said bond, or their
legal representatives.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the executors, devisees, and heirs at law of Thomas Fletcher, deceased, late of the State of Ken- tucky, be, and they are hereby, released from all obligation to the United States on the bond executed by C. Nicholas, as paymaster, with Lewis Saunders, the said Thomas Fletcher and Thomas Dye Owings as his securities, on the twenty-eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventeen, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars: Pro
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11 12 13	vided, however, That this act shall not be construed as releasing any of the other obligors in said bond, or their legal representatives.