United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 134
Chap. CXXXIV.—An Act for the relief of Charles Ross and Samuel Breck, surviving executors of John Ross, deceased.
Claim to be settled.
Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.Be it enacted, &c., That the commissioner to be appointed by virtue of an act of Congress, passed at the present session, entitled, “An act to authorize the payment for property lost, captures, or destroyed by the enemy while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes,” be, and he is hereby authorized to audit and settle the claim of Charles Ross and Samuel Breck, surviving executors of John Ross, deceased, by ascertaining or causing to be ascertained, in the manner prescribed in the aforesaid act, the amount of damages which they have sustained, in consequence of the occupation, by the troops of the United States, of Point Petre, in the State of Georgia, in the loss of the rent of the farm attached thereto, the destruction of the buildings, and of the wood, and other fuel thereon.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Charles Ross and Samuel Breck, executors aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 27, 1816.