Chapter XXIV. for the relief of Daniel Renner and Nathaniel H
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Chap. XXIV.— An Act for the relief of Daniel Renner and Nathaniel H. Heath. Feb. 16, 1819. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle theCompensation for property destroyed. claim of Daniel Renner and Nathaniel H. Heath, on account of cordage, spunyarns, and hemp, burned in their ropewalk on the twenty-fourth day of August, eighteen hundred and fourteen, upon their exhibiting such proof of the quantity and value of said articles, considering the circumstances they were under at the time, as shall be satisfactory to the officers aforesaid: *Provided,* That the amount shall not exceed theProviso. sum of nineteen thousand eight hundred three dollars and sixty cents.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the amount thereof, whenAppropriation. so ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 16, 1819.