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Private Law 14–LXXXIV
authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Teahle Savage and others.
Approved March 3, 1817
Statutory text
An Act
authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Teahle Savage and others.
Whereas, during the late war, Captain Teakle Savage did volunteer his
Preamble.
services and the use of his boat to the officers commanding at Hampton, in Virginia, and did, with the assistance of some of the militia stationed at that place, and in company with the revenue cutter commanded by Captain Ham, capture one launch and two barges belonging to the enemy, and make prisoners of one lieutenant, one midshipman, one boatswain, and fifty-two privates and marines; which boats were valued, by officers appointed by General Wade Hampton, commander at Norfolk, at the sum of two thousand six hundred and forty-five dollars, which boats and prisoners were delivered to the proper authority of the United States:
FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 89, 90, 95. 1817.
Be it, therefore, enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, out of any money in the
$4020 to be paid to T. Savage and others.
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the said Teakle Savage, the officers and men of the militia who served with him, and to the officers and crew of the revenue cutter aforesaid, or to the agent of such persons, or their legal representative, where any of them should be dead, the sum of four thousand and twenty dollars, to be divided among the said officers and men, conformably to the principles of the laws relating to the division of prize money.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury
An agent to be appointed to distribute the money.
is hereby authorized to appoint an agent to distribute the money aforesaid, in the manner herein directed, to the several persons authorized to receive the same, upon their producing to the said agent satisfactory evidence that they are entitled thereto.
Approved, .