Private Law 15–XXIV

That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the

Compensation for property destroyed.

claim of Daniel Renner and Nathaniel H. Heath, on account of cordage, spunyarns, and hemp, burned in their ropewalk on the twenty-fourth day of August, eighteen hundred and fourteen, upon their exhibiting such proof of the quantity and value of said articles, considering the circumstances they were under at the time, as shall be satisfactory to the officers aforesaid: Provided, That the amount shall not exceed the

Proviso.

sum of nineteen thousand eight hundred three dollars and sixty cents.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when

Appropriation.

so ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.