Chapter LIX. concerning Thomas Shields and others
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Chap. LIX.— An Act concerning Thomas Shields and others. March 3, 1821. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to Thomas Shields, and to$3850 to be paid them for 77 prisoners, &c. the persons associated with him in capturing and delivering to the Marshal of the Louisiana district, seventy-seven prisoners, during the late 262 SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 60, 61, 62. 1821. war between the United States and Great Britain, the sum of three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; it being fifty dollars a head, one half the bounty allowed to private armed vessels for prisoners delivered by them as aforesaid; the said money to be paid to the said Thomas Shields and his associates aforesaid, or to their legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be divided among the said Thomas Shields and his associates aforesaid, upon the principles regulating the distribution of prize money.
Approved, March 3, 1821.