Chapter CXLIX. for the Relief of John R
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Chap. CXLIX.— An Act for the Relief of John R. Williams. Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, J. R. Williams to be credited $2,000 for damages done to his farm in 1313 and 1814. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to credit John R. Williams, as on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fourteen, on his bonds and mortgage, given by him to the United States in eighteen hundred and twelve, and still held by them, to secure the payment of three thousand two hundred dollars, with interest till paid, being the amount of the purchase money of a farm when sold to him at auction by the United States, in eighteen hundred and eleven, the sum of two thousand dollars, it being for damages done to his farm, known by the name of the Springwell farm, situate in the then Territory, now State of Michigan, while in the occupancy of the United States troops, in the years eighteen hundred and thirteen and eighteen hundred and fourteen, and in full payment of said damages.
Approved, August 8, 1846.