Volume 22
Private Law 47–115
for the relief of the captain, owners, officers, and crew of the late United States private-armed brig General Armstrong, their heirs, executors, administrators, agents, or assigns
Approved May 1, 1882
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of the captain, owners, officers, and crew of the late United States private-armed brig General Armstrong, their heirs, executors, administrators, agents, or assigns
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to examine and adjust the claims of the captain, owners, officers, and crew of the late private-armed brig General Armstrong growing out of the destruction of said brig by a British force in the neutral port of Fayal in September, eighteen hundred and fourteen, upon the evidence established before the Court of Claims, and to settle the same on principles of justice and equity; and that he be, and is hereby, further authorized and directed to draw his requisition in favor of said claimants, their heirs, executors,
Appropriation.
administrators, agents, or assigns, for the amount which may be by him found due to said claimants, on the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding seventy thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine dollars, the amount proved before the Court of Claims, who is authorized to pay the same out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. J. WARREN KEIFER Speaker of the House of Representatives. DAVID DAVIS President of the Senate pro tempore
Received by the President April 20, 1882. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]