United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 79
Chap. LXXIX.—An Act rewarding the officers and crew of the Constitution, for the capture of the British sloop of war Levant.
Reward for capturing the sloop of war Levant.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized to have distributed as prize money, to Captain Charles Stewart, late of the frigate Constitution, his officers and crew, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, for the capture of the British sloop of war Levant; and that the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose aforesaid.
Approved, April 26, 1816.