Chapter XLV. for the Relief of the American Colonization Society
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Chap. XLV.— An Act for the Relief of the American Colonization Society. March 3, 1851. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Settlement of claim of the American Colonization Society for Africans of the barque Pons. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and required, upon equitable principles, to settle the claim of the American Colonization Society for the support and maintenance, in Liberia, of the Africans recaptured on board the barque Pons, and for all supplies furnished them of every description, and for medical attention, and to pay the amount which he may find so to be due to the said society, out of any Proviso.money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, provided the same shall not exceed fifty dollars per head.
Approved, March 3, 1851.