Chapter CCLXIV. for the relief of William Nelson, administrator of the estate of Andrew Nelson, deceased, and for other purposes
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Chap. CCLXIV.— An Act for the relief of William Nelson, administrator of the estate of Andrew Nelson, deceased, and for other purposes.July 14, 1832. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That there be paid to William Nelson, administrator of the estate of Andrew Nelson, deceased, out of any money in Payment of prize money to Wm. Nelson. the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars and forty-two cents, being his proportion of prize money, as a seaman in the naval service of the United States, under the command of Commodore McDonough, for the British squadron captured on Lake Champlain during the late war; the same not having been heretofore paid under the “Act to authorize the purchase of the vessels Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 89. captured on Lake Champlain,” approved the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Navy Also, to legal representatives of J. Coleman. pay to the legal representatives of John Coleman, deceased, the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars, and forty-two cents, reported on the books of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury to the said John Coleman, for his share of prize money for the British vessels captured on lake Erie during the late war; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the proper accounting officers Payment of transportation money to Jas. Scrivener. of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to pay to James Scrivener, late a seaman in the United States’ Navy, or his legal representatives, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents, in full of transportation money due him during the late war. Approved, July 14, 1832.