Chapter XXVII. addition to an act, entitled “An Act allowing a bounty to the owners, officers and crews of the private armed vessels of the United States.” March 19, 1814. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Aug. 2, 1813, ch
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Chap. XXVII.— An Act addition to an act, entitled “An Act allowing a bounty to the owners, officers and crews of the private armed vessels of the United States.” March 19, 1814. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 55.The sum of 100 dollars to be paid out of That in lieu of the bounty now allowed by law, the sum of one hundred dollars be paid to the owners, officers and crews of the private armed vessels of the United States, 106 the treasury to privateers-men for each prisoner taken by them.commissioned as letters of marque, for each and every prisoner by them captured and delivered to an agent authorized to receive him in any port of the United States, or of a power at war with Great Britain, or delivered at any station within the dominions of the king of Great Britain established for the exchange of prisoners of war, whereby such prisoner shall be actually placed and allowed by the government of the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the account of prisoners to the credit of the Bounty to be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury.United States.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to pay, or cause to be paid, to such owners, officers and crews of private armed vessels commissioned as aforesaid, or their agents, the aforesaid sum for each prisoner captured and delivered as aforesaid. Sec. 2. Specific appropriation of $200,000. *And be it further enacted, *That, for the purposes aforesaid, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appropriated.
Approved, March 19, 1814.