United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 133
Chap. CXXXIII.—An Act for the relief of Taylor and McNeal, Evans and McNeal, and Henry and John McCleester.
Claims to be settled.Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the War Department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of Taylor and McNeal, Evans and McNeal, and Henry and John McCleester, for the use of their scows, applied under the authority of the United States, for the purpose of making a temporary bridge over the basin at Baltimore, in the month of September, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and to allow them, in the settlement thereof, such compensation as may be reasonable and just for the use aforesaid.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Taylor and McNeal, Evans and McNeal, and Henry and John McCleester, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Apporved, April 27, 1816.