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United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/12th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 19

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4674731United States Statutes at Large, Volume 6Private Acts of the Twelfth Congress, 2nd Session, Chapter 19United States Congress


Feb. 2, 1813.

Chap. XIX.An Act for the relief of Jared Shattuck.

$33,864.55 to be paid to him.Be it enacted, &c., That there be paid to Jared Shattuck, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty-three thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-five cents, being the amount decreed on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, by the supreme court of the United States, to the said Jared Shattuck, for his damages in an amicable suit against Lieutenant Maley, master of the United States’ schooner Experiment, whose appearance was entered and defence conducted by the attorney of the United States, for the district of Pennsylvania, in pursuance of instructions given to him from the executive of the United States, in the capture by said Maley of the ship Mercator, in the year eighteen hundred; and also the interest at six per cent. on the sum of twenty-five thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars and forty-four cents, from the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six.

Apporved, February 2, 1813.