United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/11th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 28
Chap. XXVIII.—An Act for the relief of Moses Young.
To be paid as secretary of legation.Be it enacted, &c., That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized to settle the account of Moses Young, as secretary of legation to Henry Laurens, Esq., on his mission to Holland, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty; and that they allow him five hundred pounds sterling per annum, from the eighteenth of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, the time of his appointment, to the ninth of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, including the usual allowance of three months for returning to the United States; and after deducting the sum of money received from Dr. Franklin by the petitioner, and by his agent, Joseph Nourse, from the treasury, that the balance, with interest thereon, be paaid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Apporved, April 25, 1810.