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 FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 157, 158, 161. 1816. 175 poses aforesaid, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Ammovnn, April 29, 1816. —""“' Sururz I. Crier. CLV1I.—-An Act to indemnyfy Jabez Mowry and others. April 229, 1316, Be it enacted, dec., That upon the payment by Jabez Mowry, John W W. C. Baxter, Samuel Wheeler, Jonathan Bartlett, Josiah Dana, and Indemnity of Aaron Hayden, citizens of the United States, of certain bonds now in gh? ““i$,";$r°f suit in the district court of Maine, given by them to the United States, agdezthers rin for duties on goods imported into the district of Passamaquoddy, l>¤¤d¤ ¤=*k*>¤ b? amounting to the sum of sixty-five thousand five hundred and eight um °°°my` dollars and seventeen cents, which bonds, on the capture of Eastport, on the eleventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, fell into the hands of the enemy, and were afterwards, by the vice admiralty court of Nova Scotia, decreed forfeit, and the amount thereof ordered to be distributed among the captors, and attachments issued against the principals and sureties in said bonds, to compel the pay- ment thereof, the United States will indemnify the principals and sureties in said bonds, and save them harmless against the loss thereof, and for the expenses already incurred by them in consequence of said loss ; which expenses shall be ascertained by the accounting officers of the treasury, and paid out of any moneys therein, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 29, 1816. ———-——— Srarurz L CHAP. CLVI1I.—An Act for the relief of John Hol/rar, formerly consul gen- April 29, 1816. eral of France, to the United States. _""`“—""` Be it enacted, ¢§·c., That the accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they hereby are authorized and directed to settle the Aceanntta be account of John Holkar, formerly consul general of France, to the ¤¢'¤*l°d» &°· United States, for thirty-seven loan office certificates, amounting to twenty-one thousand seven hundred dollars nominal, that is to say: three hundred dollars thereof, issued from the loan office of New Hampshire; seven thousand nine hundred dollars thereof, issued from the loan office of Massachusetts; eight hundred dollars thereof, issued from the loan office of Rhode Island ; twelve hundred dollars thereof, issued from the loan office of New York; and eleven thousand five hundred dollars thereof, issued from the loan office of Georgia; all of which had been signed by Francis Hopkinson, treasurer of loans, and countersigned by the loan officers of the states respectively, and which were destroyed by fire in the consulate office at Philadelphia,.on the second day of January, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty; and that the specie value thereof, being five thousand eight hundred and three dollars thirty-five ninetieths, be paid, with interest thereon, at six per cent., from the third day of July, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, being the mean data of interest on the same as examined and stated in the office of the Auditor of the Treasury on the twenty-fifth day ofOctober, one thousand seven hundred and ninety- four, to the said John Holkar, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the said John Holkar giving a bondof indemnity to the satisfaction of the Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States. Approved, April 29, 1816. W S·r.4·ru·rm I. Crier. CLXI.--./211, Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Joseph APH, 99, ,8,6. Stewart and at/ters. .__;__, Be it enacted, <§•c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is Reward com hereby authorized and required to pay to Joseph Stewart and his asso- f€”°d “P°°