Chapter XCV. for the relief of Angus O
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Chap. XCV.— An Act for the relief of Angus O. Fraser and others. May 11, 1820. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any moneys in the treasuryPayment to officers of revenue cutter Louisiana, on account of seizure of British vessel Ardent, &c. not otherwise appropriated, to Angus O. Fraser and others, who, at the time of the seizure of the British vessel Ardent, in or near the river Mississippi, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, by the United States’ revenue cutter Louisiana, were officers of the said cutter, or to their legal representatives, the sum of five thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixty-two cents, in such proportions as, by law, they are severally entitled to; being one half of the amount paid into the treasury, as the United States’ moiety of the net proceeds of the said vessel and cargo, condemned in the district court of the United States for the district of New Orleans; and to which half the said officers were entitled under the provisions of the “Act to prohibitAct of April 18, 1806, ch. 29. the importation of certain goods, wares, or merchandise,” passed on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, to be distributed among the said officers, or their legal representatives, as provided by the said act.
Approved, May 11, 1820.