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 FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. CPr.134,136,144,146. 1816. 173 Su·ru·rm I. CHAP. CXXXlV.—jAn Act for the relief of Charles Ross and Samuel Break, April 27, 1816. survwtng executors of John Ross, deceased. -————-—-——-— Be it enacted, nyc., That the commissioner to be. appointed by vir- Claim to be tue of an act of Congress, passed at the present session, entitled, "An wttled- _ act to authorize the payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed ,3,% °2A£)“l 9* by the enemy while in the military service of the United States, andc " ` for other purposes," be, and he is hereby authorized to audit and settle the claim of Charles Ross and Samuel Breck, surviving executors of John Ross, deceased, by ascertaining or causing to be ascertained, in the manner prescribed in the aforesaid act, the amount of damages which they have sustained, in consequence of the occupation, by the troops of the United States, of Point Petre, in the State of Georgia, in the loss of the rent of the farm attached thereto, the destruction of the buildings, and of the wood, and other fuel thereon. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when Appropriation. so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Charles Ross and Samuel Breck, executors aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, April 27, 1816. ·r.u·u·ru 1. CHAP. CXXXV1.——An Act for the reliq" of Menassah Miner and Isaac Denison. Aim 99, 1g1g_ Be it enacted, dee., That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, to Reimbursement pay to Menassah Miner the sum of three hundred and three dollars °;;f;;“‘“ °‘“ and seventy-four cents, and to Isaac Denison the sum of two hundred P ` and fifty-five dollars and ninety-two cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for services rendered and expenses incurred by said Menassah in providing for his son John Miner, and for like services and expenditures rendered and incurred by Isaac Denison, in providing for his son Frederick Denison, while they were diseased by wounds received by them in the service of the United States, in defence of Stonington Point, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. APPROVED, April 29, 1816. Snrurz I. CHAP. CXLIV.-rfln Hclfor the relzqf of E/tzabetlt Hamzlton. April 29, 18m' Be it enacted, eye., That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby required to settle the account of Eliza- Five years' pay beth Hamilton, widow and representative of Alexander Hamilton, *‘ll°W° · deceased, and to allow her five years’ full pay for the services of her deceased husband, as a lieutenant-colonel in the revolutionary war, which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, April 29, 1816. """"" Survrm I. CHAP. CXLV1.—-·An Act autltzwizing t/te Comptroller of the Treasury to cancel Apr;] gg, jg1g_ certain export bands executed by Caspar C. Scltutte. -··—·-—-—-·—-— Be it enacted, dm., That the Comptroller of the Treasury be, and ,?§;‘*;;`;;c‘;}‘;:,° he is hereby authorized and empowered to cause to be cancelled all ` the export bonds executed by Caspar C. Schutte, in ·his life time, for merchandise shipped in the following vessels, to wit: the Ariadne, Hammonia, and Enoch; and should judgment or judgments have been entered up on any one, or all of the said bonds, to direct the collector of the customs for the port of Charleston to enter2satisfaction on the P