United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/10th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 21
Chap. XXI.—An Act for the relief of Daniel Cotton.
Allowance for detention of ship Anna Maria.Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to settle the account of Daniel Cotton, and allow him for the detention and use of his ship, called the Anna Maria, from the twenty-third of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred, when she was arrested by the Bey of Tunis, until the twenty-third day of May following, when she discharged her Tunisian cargo at Marseilles, allowing him while in port the usual rate of demurrage, and while on the voyage the usual rate of freight, agreeably to the burthen of the said ship; and after deducting from the whole sum allowed for such detention, demurrage and freight, five thousand dollars paid to the master of said ship by William Eaton, then consul for the United States at Tunis, they pay the balance, with interest, to said Daniel Cotton, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 28, 1809.