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Public Law 14–CXIX
providing for the distribution of one hundred thousand dollars among the captors of the Algerine vessels captured and restored to the Dey of Algiers.
Approved April 27, 1816
Statutory text
An Act
providing for the distribution of one hundred thousand dollars among the captors of the Algerine vessels captured and restored to the Dey of Algiers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Distribution of appropriation for the capture of the Algerine vessels.
United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, and FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 120, 121. 1816. distributed in the same proportions and under the same regulations as prize money is now by law directed to be distributed, among the captors of the Algerine vessels, captured by the American squadron, under the command of Commodore Decatur, and afterwards restored to the Dey of Algiers.
Approved, .