Chapter LXXX. authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John T
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Chap. LXXX.— An Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John T. Courtnay and Samuel Harrison, or their legal representatives. April 26, 1816. *Be it enacted, &c., * $375 to be paid them. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to John T. Courtnay and Samuel Harrison, citizens of Virginia, or if either or both of them be dead, then to their legal representatives, the sum of three hundred and seventy-five dollars, to be equally divided between them; which sum is paid them in consequence of their exertions in saving from being destroyed by fire, the gun-boat schooner Asp, belonging to the United States, when she was set on fire and left burning by the enemy, after having been taken by them, in an action in the month of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, in the river Potomac.
Approved, April 26, 1816.