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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · April 20, 1818 · Chapter CXVII

Chapter CXVII. for the relief of Benjamin Berry

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Chap. CXVII.— An Act for the relief of Benjamin Berry. April 20, 1818. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to audit and settle, upon suchClaim to be examined and settled. terms as may appear to him equitable and proper, the claim of Benjamin Berry, of the State of Massachusetts, for three hundred dollars, on account of a contract made in January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, between him and the collector of the port of Machias, by which the said Berry engaged to bring, for the benefit of the United States, certain property from the wreck of the British ship Diligent.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the amount of the claim, whenAppropriation. ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 20, 1818.
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