Chapter XCVIII. for the relief of Frederick Perley
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Chap. XCVIII.— An Act for the relief of Frederick Perley. May 18, 1824. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the proper accounting officers of the treasuryHis claim to be settled. department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the claim of Frederick Perley, under a contract made on the twentieth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, with Justus Post, agent for fortifications at New York, and to pay the said Perley for such losses and damages as he shall prove, by the best evidence which the nature of the case will admit of, he sustained, in consequence of the agent refusing to receive the stone according to contract.
Sec. 2. Appropriation. *And be it further enacted, *That the amount of the claim, when ascertained, as aforesaid, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 18, 1824.