Chapter CXV. authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John Rogers and others
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Chap. CXV.— An Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John Rogers and others. April 27, 1816. *Be it enacted, &c., * Donation of $300. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred dollars, to John Rogers, William C. Burdick, Joshua Halt, and Jeremiah Chapman, of New London, in the state of Connecticut, which money is paid to them for their valor and good conduct, in capturing a midshipman and two seamen of the British navy, and as compensation for the said prisoners. Approved, April 27, 1816.