Chapter CCXXIII. for the relief of John Raptiste Jerome
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Chap. CCXXIII.— An Act for the relief of John Raptiste Jerome. May 31, 1830. *Be it enacted, &c., * Payment for property destroyed. That it shall be the duty of the Third Auditor of the Treasury to ascertain the value of a certain barn, the property of TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 224, 225. 1830. 449 said Jerome, and marked on a map referred to in the deposition of James Ganou, on file in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, number sixteen, which was destroyed by fire, by order of an American officer, to prevent its use as a cover by the British and Indians, in the battle of the twenty-second of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, at Frenchtown, on the River Rasin; and, also, to ascertain the value of the personal property of said Jerome in and about said barn, and which was destroyed in consequence of such burning; and the sums so found to be due, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 31, 1830.