United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 23
Chap. XXIII.—An Act for the relief of Lieutenant-Colonel William Lawrence, of the army of the United States, and of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, composing the garrison of Fort Boyer, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.
Allowance of prize money.Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the department of war be, and they are hereby authorized and required to audit and settle the claims of the officers and soldiers composing the garrison of Fort Boyer, on the fifteenth of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; and to allow to them the same sum, as prize money, as would be allowed if the sloop of war Hermes, belonging to the enemy, had been captured by an equal naval force; and also to allow to the said garrison the half value (all expenses being first deducted) of the schooner Active, and her cargo, captured in the year aforesaid by the said garrison: and that the sums aforesaid, when allowed, be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 5, 1816.