Chapter LXI. for the relief of the legal representatives of Jean Baptiste Couture
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Chap. LXI.— An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Jean Baptiste Couture. April 7, 1830. *Beit enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representativesPayment for property destroyed by the British. of Jean Baptiste Couture, the sum of two thousand dollars, the value of a dwelling-house, store, and lumber-house, stable, bake, and wash-house, situate at Frenchtown, on the river Raisin, which were in the military occupation of the United States, by the command of an officer in the service, and while so occupied, and in consequence thereof, were destroyed by the British and Indians, on the twenty-third of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
Approved, April 7, 1830.