Chapter XXX. *supplementary to the act making provision for the payment of claims of citizens of the United States on the government of France.*April 18, 1806. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Claims of citizens of the U
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Chap. XXX.— An Act *supplementary to the act making provision for the payment of claims of citizens of the United States on the government of France.*April 18, 1806. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Claims of citizens of the U. States under the Bordeaux embargo to be paid at the treasury. States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be paid, at the treasury of the United States, the amount of certain claims of citizens of the United States against the government of France, arising from the Bordeaux embargo, in conformity with a certified list of liquidations, attested by the minister of the public treasury of France, and transmitted by the minister plenipotentiary of the United States, at Paris, to the said secretary; which payments shall be made for such sums, respectively, as are stated in the above-mentioned list of liquidations, to such persons, respectively, as the accounting officers of the treasury shall determine to be rightfully entitled to the same, and out of the monies heretofore appropriated for the purpose of discharging the claims of citizens of the United States against the government of France, the payment of which was assumed by the government of the United States, by virtue of the convention of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three.
Approved, April 18, 1806.