Chapter XLI. for the Relief of John Percival, Captain in the Navy of the United States
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Chap. XLI.— An Act for the Relief of John Percival, Captain in the Navy of the United States. Feb. 1, 1849. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of A merica in Congress assembled*, Accounting officers to credit John Percival with the amount charged against him for money paid by the purser of the Constitution to Dr. J. C. Reinhardt. That the accounting officer of the Navy Department, or the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury Department, enter in the account of Captain John Percival a credit equal to the amount there charged against said Percival, for money paid by the purser of the United States frigate Constitution, on her voyage to the Indian Ocean, and elsewhere, in the years eighteen hundred and forty-four and eighteen hundred and forty-five, to Doctor J.
C. Reinhardt, as naturalist; and cancel such account and charge against said John Percival, for all money charged as aforesaid against him, whether paid by the purser, or by himself, or by his order, to said Reinhardt or Chandler, acting as naturalist, chaplain, or passed midshipman. Approved, February 1, 1849.