Chapter CC. for the relief of Jonathan Walton and John J
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Chap. CC.— An Act for the relief of Jonathan Walton and John J. De Graff.June 30, 1834. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to settle the accounts of Jonathan Walton and Their accounts for transportation to be settled, &c. John J. De Graff, formerly acting under the firm of Jonathan Walton and Company, as agents for transportation of seamen, ordnance, naval stores, and other munitions of war, and allow to them such sum as they shall prove they actually lost on the sale of treasury notes, when they received said treasury notes on account of current money previously advanced and paid by them out of their own individual funds for the United States during the last war with Great Britain for expenditures as agents as aforesaid: *Provided,* They received said treasury notes, under Proviso. a contract or agreement, that they were to be reimbursed in par funds: *And provided,* said contract or agreement was not rescinded or waived Proviso. by the parties; and also such other sums as shall be satisfactorily proven to have been actually paid by the said Jonathan Walton and John J.
De Graff, as interest until the principal was refunded on loans of money procured by said firm, and advanced by them solely for the use of the Government, on transactions during, and growing out of, the late war with Great Britain: *Provided,* That the amount so allowed and paid to Proviso. them for the depreciation of treasury notes aforesaid, and interest on advances aforesaid, shall not in the whole exceed the sum of seventeen thousand five hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That said sum so allowed shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 30, 1834.