Chapter XCVII. for the relief of Gilbert C
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Chap. XCVII.— An Act for the relief of Gilbert C. Russel. May 20, 1826. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Gilbert C. Russel, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,To be paid for his buildings at Mobile Point, taken possession of by U. S. troops. the sum of fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-one dollars seventeen cents, being the value of his buildings at Mobile Point, which were taken possession of by an armed force of the United States, in October, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, under an order of the then Secretary at War, and for the work and labor done and performed by him on the public works at Mobile Point, and for labor performed at Dog River, Fowl River, Shell Banks, and elsewhere, in preparing materials for the erection of said works, and for such materials as were prepared at the several places last aforesaid: *Provided,* That the SecretaryProviso. of the Treasury retain the sum of nineteen thousand eight hundred and seventy-four dollars and forty-nine cents, the estimated value of the buildings at Mobile Point, until the said Gilbert C.
Russel, or his grantee or grantees, or their assignee or assignees, shall deposit with him a release or releases, of all liens or conveyances of said buildings heretofore given or made by said Russel, so that all the interest of which the said Russel was possessed, be vested in the United States: *And provided also,*Proviso. That the said Secretary do not issue his warrant for the sum awarded by the Third Auditor, under the act for the relief of GilbertAct of March 3, 1825, ch. 88.
C. Russel, passed March third, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, the same being included in the sum appropriated in this act. Approved, May 20, 1826.