United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 98
Chap. XCVIII.—An Act making an appropriation for the suppression of the slave trade.[1]
30,000 dollars appropriated for the suppression of the slave trade.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 101.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the suppression of the slave trade, pursuant to the act of Congress of the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
Secretary of the Navy to satisfy the claim of Taliaferro Livingston.
Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized to pay, out of the sum herein appropriated, the claim of the administrator of the estate of Taliaferro Livingston, late United States’ marshal for the district of Alabama, for the maintenance of sundry Africans, captured in one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: Provided, The said administrator shall produce satisfactory evidence of the reasonableness of the charges for the said maintenance; and that the sums received by the said Livingston for the hire of the said Africans, and for the labour performed for him by said Africans, if any, be accounted for, and deducted.
Approved, May 24, 1828.
- ↑ For acts relating to the slave trade, see vol. i. 347.