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Public Law 14–CXLV
authorizing payment for prisoners captured by private armed vessels.
Approved April 29, 1816
Statutory text
An Act
authorizing payment for prisoners captured by private armed vessels.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Bounty to officers and crew of private armed vessels.
United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 149, 150. 1816. of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and required to settle and pay unto the owners, officers and crew of private armed vessels, the bounty allowed by law for prisoners captured and brought into port, and delivered to the agent of the United States, captured on board any British vessel after the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain, but before the said treaty took effect in the latitude wherein the capture was made; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay the aforesaid claims out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Appropriation.
Approved, .