Chapter XCVIII. authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John Gooding and James Williams
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Chap. XCVIII.— An Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John Gooding and James Williams. May 7, 1822. *Be it enacted, &c., * Bounty money for prisoners. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John Gooding and James Williams, late owners of the private armed schooner Midas, or to their legal representative or representatives, the sura of two thousand two hundred dollars, which sum is paid to them as bounty money, at the rate of one hundred dollars per man, for twenty-two prisoners who were slaves, but part of the crew, and combatants, on board of the privateer Dash, taken by the said schooner Midas, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, Proviso.during the war between the United States and Great Britain: *Provided,* That if the said John Gooding and James Williams, or either of them, shall be indebted to the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to retain the amount so due out of the money herein directed to be paid, and give credit for the sum so retained, to the person so indebted to the United States.
Approved, May 7, 1822.