Chapter XCVIII. for the relief of Alexander Holmes and Benjamin Hough
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Chap. XCVIII.— An Act for the relief of Alexander Holmes and Benjamin Hough. March 3, 1817. *Be it enacted, &c., * Claim of surveyors to be settled. That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of Alexander Holmes, and Benjamin Hough, for expenses incurred in endeavouring to survey military bounty lands in the Michigan territory, and to survey into sections the land on each side of the road, laid out from the foot of the Rapids of the Miami of the lake to the Western boundary line of the Connecticut western reserve, and from which survey they were prevented by Indian hostility; and that they allow them, in the settlement of the same, a reasonable compensation for such expenses as were necessarily incurred.
Sec. 2. Appropriation. *And be itfurther enacted, *That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Alexander Holmes and Benjamin Hough, respectively, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1817.