Chapter XXIV. for the relief of Oliver Pollock
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Chap. XXIV.— An Act for the relief of Oliver Pollock. March 3, 1807. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the proper accounting officers of the treasuryA ccount of commercial agent. be, and they are hereby authorized to liquidate and settle the account of Oliver Pollock, formerly commercial agent for the United States at New Orleans, and that they allow him for his expenses of detention at the Havanna; for the sum paid Thomas Patterson, as his hostage; for gunpowder furnished; for commission on the sum paid for gunpowder, and for commission on the sum of seventy-four thousand and eighty-seven dollars, at the rate of two and one half per cent, with interest until paid, and that the same be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated:
Provided, The said Pollock shall, upon the receipt of the sums directed to be paid by this act, execute, in consideration thereof, a discharge to the United States of all demands whatsoever, and lodge the same with the register of the treasury. Approved, March 3, 1807.