United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/13th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 66
Chap. LXVI.—An Act for the relief of William H. Washington.
To be compensated for property destroyed.Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the war department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to ascertain the value of the house belonging to William H. Washington, situated near the west end of the Potomac bridge, and which was lately destroyed by order of an officer of the United States; which valuation shall be made in such manner, and upon such terms, as may embrace the justice of his case.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the value thereof, when ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the said William H. Washington releasing to the United States all claim on account of the destruction of the aforesaid house.
Approved, March 1, 1815.