PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December 1816, and ended on the third day of March, 1817.
James Madison, President of the United States; John Gaillard, President of the Senate pro tempore; Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
STATUTE II.
Chap I.—An Act for the relief of Nathaniel Williams.
To be discharged from imprisonment.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, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to discharge from imprisonment Nathaniel Williams of Rockingham, in the state of North Carolina, now confined in prison at Rockingham courthouse, on a judgment obtained in favor of the United States, in the district court of North Carolina.
Treasury to give him credit.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to place to the credit of the said Nathaniel Williams, the sum of four hundred and twenty-nine dollars, it being the balance which appears on the books of the comptroller due from him, but which he has disbursed for the use of the United States.
Approved, January 2, 1817.
Statute II.
Chap. II.—An Act directing the discharge of Nathaniel Taft from imprisonment.
To be discharged from imprisonment.Be it enacted, &c., That Nathaniel Taft, who is now confined in jail in the city of New York on a judgment obtained against him in favor of the United States, be discharged from his imprisonment: Provided, however, That any estate, real or personal, which the said Nathaniel Taft may have, or hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken to satisfy the judgment aforesaid, in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged: And provided further, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect the liability of any co-obligor that may have been bound with the said Nathaniel Taft, for the payment of any sum of money to the United States.
Approved, January 14, 1817.
Statute II.
Chap. V.—An Act for the relief of William Haslet.
