Chapter LXXVIII. for the relief of Marinus W
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Chap. LXXVIII.— An Act for the relief of Marinus W. Gilbert. May 23, 1828. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed toClaim for suttler’s stores to be settled. ascertain and settle the claim of Marinus W. Gilbert, late a suttler in the army of the United States, on account of goods, wares, and merchandises, (being his suttler’s stores,) which were captured or destroyed by the British at French Mills, Constable, and Malone, in February, eighteen hundred and fourteen, or were destroyed by the United States troops, by order of the commanding officer, to prevent their falling into the hands of the enemy, on the evacuation of the post at the French Mills, at the time aforesaid, (the said Marinus W.
Gilbert having been prevented from removing his said property to places of safety by the teams which he had provided for the purpose, by the impressment of those teams into the service of the United States army,) by order of the commanding officer: *Provided,* The said Marinus shall produce satisfactoryProviso. proof of the quantity and value of said goods, at cost, and including carriage: *And provided,* The allowance for the same shall not exceedProviso. three thousand dollars in amount.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the amount thereof, whenAppropriation. so ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 23, 1828.