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 274 SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess..1. Ch. 98, 99, 100,101. 1822. Allowance for four hundred and thirty dollars; being the value of a wagon and four W°B°¤ md horses employed in the service of the United States in the late war, and £;r¥l:’;?lgg;id captured by the enemy at the surrender of Detroit. Approved, May 7, 1822. Szzwrurs I. "'*"` . .—-An del authorizin the a ment 0 a sum 0 mane lo Jolm ..Mu...y 7, 1. B22. CHAP XCVHI Gooding and §amcspP};illiamf f y B Be it enacted, &·c., That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby auounty money. . · for prisoner. thorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John Gooding and James Williams, late owners of the private armed schooner Midas, or to their legal representative or representatives, the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars, which sum is paid to them as bounty money, at the rate of one hundred dollars per man, for twenty-two prisoners who were slaves, but part of the crew, and combatants, on board of the privateer Dash, taken by the said schooner Midas, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, during the war between the United States and Great Britain: Pro- Pmvlso vided, That if the said John Gooding and James Williarns, or either of ` them, shall be indebted to the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to retain the amount so due out of the money herein directed to be paid, and give credit for the sum so retained, to the person so indebted to the United States. Armovnn, May 7, 1822. SNTUTB I- CHAP. XCIX.-·-dn dc! for the refiqf of William Gwynn, Mw 7· 182% Be it enacted, &~c., That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Allowance {0, William Gwynn, of the state of Alabama, forty-seven dollars and fifty ¤ lwrsc killcdin cents, for a horse killed in battle on the twenty-second day of January, "‘"l°· one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, at Oak Fusky; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Am-novnu, May 7, 1822. Smmnrn I. .._... Mw ’7» 1822- CHAP. C. —-An Act authorizing ting of a sum of memoy to Thomas ' "" te. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is Allow,,,,,,,, ll,,. hereby, authorized to cause to be paid to Thomas Shields, or his legal loss of property representative, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise approgyeburlylnz °f printed, the sum of one thousand six hundred and ninety-three dollars m,.gl`;,,,,;,_ and ten cents; which is paid to him in consideration of his loss of property to that amount, occasioned by burning the public store-house at the bay of St. Louis, by order of Lieutenant Jones, commanding tho naval force of the United States, stationed at that point, during the invasion of Louisiana by the enemy, in the winter of eighteen hundred and fourteen and fifteen. Approved, May 7, 1822. Srnun I. —--..- May 7, 1822. Can. C1.-dn .»9ct_fo·r the relief of Samuel Walker. Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the treasury Chim 10 be department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle the °°"l°d‘ claim of Samuel Walker, upon the principles of equity, for provisions furnished Captain Holman’s company of militia, stationed on the frontiers of the state of Indiana in the late war, for the term of three months, from the twenty-eighth day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, to the twenty-eighth day of February, in the year eighteen