United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/13th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 75
Chap. LXXV.—An Act for the relief of the Eastern Branch Bridge Company.
To be compensated for damage to the bridge.Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the navy department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to settle the claim of the Eastern Branch Bridge Company, on account of the injury done their bridge, by an order from the navy department, by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained, the value of such injury, in such manner, and upon such terms, as may be just and reasonable.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the president and directors of the said company, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be applied to the repairing or rebuilding of the said bridge.
Approved, March 3, 1815.