Chapter CXXV. explanatory of the act for the relief of James Leander Cathcart, passed May fifteenth, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
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Chap. CXXV.— An Act explanatory of the act for the relief of James Leander Cathcart, passed May fifteenth, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty. May 8, 1822. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the proper accounting officers of the treasuryAllowance to him for the half of a bill of exchange, &c. department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to allow the said James Leander Cathcart the sum of one thousand six hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty cents, being the one half of a bill of exchange bearing date the seventeenth of August, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, and drawn by John Robertson, master of his brig Independent, (then in the service of the United States,) on the Secretary of State, paid by him, and charged to the said Cathcart in the SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 125. 1822. 279 settlement of his account, in the year eighteen hundred and five, theAct of May 15, 1820, ch. 105. other half of said bill having been allowed to him by the act of the fifteenth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty: *Provided,* That theProviso. said James Leander Cathcart shall, previously to the payment hereby authorized, deposit with the proper officer of the treasury department satisfactory release to the United States, of so much as may be recovered by him under the provisions of the eleventh article of the treaty with Spain, on account of those expenditures consequent on the capture of said brig, and his detention in Cadiz, for the discharge of which the aforesaid bill was drawn.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the sum hereby allowed,Appropriation. be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 8, 1822. 17 2 1822 1823 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December,* 1822, *and ended on the third day of March,* 1823. James Monroe, President; Daniel D.
Tompkins, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; John Gaillard, President of the Senate pro tempore: Philip P. Barbour, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II.