Chapter CXLIV. for the Relief of James Moorehead
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Chap. CXLIV.— An Act for the Relief of James Moorehead. March 3, 1849. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Secretary of the Treasury to ascertain and pay the amount of damages in-curred and losses sustained by Janies Moore-head on account of the suspension of the erection of a dam in the Ohio River.Secretary of the Treasury to examine testimony in the case. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed and required to pay to James Moorehead, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amount as shall fully compensate and remunerate said Moorehead for all damages and losses sustained by reason of the suspension by the government of the erection of a dam in the Ohio, from a point on Wells Island to a point on the Virginia shore.
But before any payment is made to said Moorehead, the said Secretary shall cause the witnesses, on the part of the said Moorehead, to be cross-examined, and take testimony on behalf of the government, should he deem it proper to do so. Approved, March 3, 1849.