Chapter CLVII. to indemnify Jabez Mowry and others
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Chap. CLVII.— An Act to indemnify Jabez Mowry and others. April 29, 1816. *Be it enacted, &c., * That upon the payment by Jabez Mowry, John W. C. Baxter, Samuel Wheeler, Jonathan Bartlett, Josiah Dana, andIndemnity of the sureties of Jabez Mowry and others for bonds taken by the enemy. Aaron Hayden, citizens of the United States, of certain bonds now in suit in the district court of Maine, given by them to the United States, for duties on goods imported into the district of Passamaquoddy, amounting to the sum of sixty-five thousand five hundred and eight dollars and seventeen cents, which bonds, on the capture of Eastport, on the eleventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, fell into the hands of the enemy, and were afterwards, by the vice admiralty court of Nova Scotia, decreed forfeit, and the amount thereof ordered to be distributed among the captors, and attachments issued against the principals and sureties in said bonds, to compel the payment thereof, the United States will indemnify the principals and sureties in said bonds, and save them harmless against the loss thereof, and for the expenses already incurred by them in consequence of said loss; which expenses shall be ascertained by the accounting officers of the treasury, and paid out of any moneys therein, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 29, 1816.