Volume 3
Public Law 13–LXXXIX
authorizing the purchase of the vessels captured on Lake Champlain.
Approved March 3, 1815
Statutory text
An Act
authorizing the purchase of the vessels captured on Lake Champlain.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be purchased the British vessels which were captured on Lake Champlain by the American squadron, on the eleventh day of September, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen; and the amount of the valuation of such captured vessels, when duly made and returned to the Navy Department, shall be distributed as prize money, among the captors or their heirs.
Approved, .