Chapter CCXXVI. for the relief of Gabriel Godfroy
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Chap. CCXXVI.— An Act for the relief of Gabriel Godfroy. May 31, 1830. *Be it enacted, &c., * Compensation 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 said Godfroy, and marked on a map referred to in the deposition of John M. McCalla, on file in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, number fifteen, which was destroyed by order of an American officer, to prevent its use by the British and Indians as a cover, in the battle of the twenty-second of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, at Frenchtown, on the river Raisin; and, also, to ascertain the value of the personal property belonging to said Godfroy, and destroyed in and about said barn, in consequence of the burning of the same; and the sum, so found to be due, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 31, 1830.