United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/13th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 37
February 7, 1815.
Chap. XXXVII.—An Act concerning Weston Jenkins, and others.
Distribution of proceeds among them.Be it enacted, &c., That the judge of the district court for the State of Massachusetts be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to distribute among Weston Jenkins, his officers and crew, of the sloop Two Friends, which captured the British private armed schooner Retaliation, in the month of October last, the proceeds arising from said capture, which are held to the United States as droits of admiralty; and that the said distribution be made by the said judge, agreeably to the laws of the United States relative to captures made by the private armed ships of the United States.
Approved, February 7, 1815.