United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 92
Chap. XCII.—An Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to James Levins.
Donation of $500.Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred dollars, to James Levins, of South Carolina, or to his legal representative, which sum of five hundred dollars is paid to him as an evidence of the sense entertained by Congress of his valor and good conduct, in having recaptured, alone and unassisted, the schooner Santee, together with a midshipman and four seamen of the British navy, which prisoners were delivered to the marshal of the district of South Carolina, and also as compensation for the prisoners taken.
Apporved, April 26, 1816.