United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/11th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 12

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4660978United States Statutes at Large, Volume 6Private Acts of the Eleventh Congress, 3rd Session, Chapter 12United States Congress


Feb. 13, 1811.

Chap. XII.An Act making compensation to John Eugene Leitensdorfer for services rendered the United States in the war with Tripoli.

Land-warrant to be granted to Leitensdorfer.Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby directed to issue a land warrant to John Eugene Leitensdorfer for three hundred and twenty acres; which said warrant may, at the option of the holder or possessor, be located with any register or registers of the land offices on any of the public lands of the United States, lying on the west side of the Mississippi, then and there offered for sale, or may be received at the rate of two dollars per acre in payment of any such public lands.

His account to be settled.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are herby directed to settle the account of John Eugene Leitensdorfer, and to allow him the pay of a captain, from the fifteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and four, to the fifteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and five, being the time he served as adjutant and inspector of the forces of the United States, in Egypt and on the coast of Africa.

Approved, February 13, 1811.