Chapter CV. *for the Relief of George W
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Chap. CV.— An Act *for the Relief of George W. Biscoe.* June 5, 1858. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proper accounting officers of the treasury shall audit the claim of George W. Biscoe to indemnification George W. Biscoe to be indemnified under 1st article of treaty of Ghent, for loss by capture of schooner Speedwell, in not over $2,000.under the first article of the treaty of Ghent for the loss of the 542 THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 106, 107, 108, 109. 1858.schooner “Speedwell,” captured in the Patuxent River by the British naval forces on the twenty-second of August, eighteen hundred and fourteen, and which was in the waters and within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States on the seventeenth day of February, eighteen hundred and fifteen, the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the said Vol. viii. p. 218.treaty of Ghent, and was carried away out of the said waters and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, in violation of the said first article of the said treaty; and that the said officers shall ascertain the value of the said schooner “Speedwell,” from such proof as may be exhibited to them, within six months from the date of this act, and that the amount so ascertained shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise Proviso.appropriated: *Provided, always,* That the said amount shall not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars.
Approved, June 5, 1858.