Volume 6
Private Law 16–CVI
authorizing the settlement of the accounts between the United States and Richard O’Brien, late American Consul at Algiers.
Approved May 15, 1820
Statutory text
An Act
authorizing the settlement of the accounts between the United States and Richard O’Brien, late American Consul at Algiers.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the proper accounting officers of the treasury
Account to be settled, and amount due to be paid.
department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to liquidate and settle the accounts subsisting between the United States and Richard O’Brien, late American consul at Algiers, under the instruction and direction of the Secretary of State, and that the amount due upon such settlement to said Richard O’Brien be paid out of any
Proviso.
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to authorize the allowance of any claim, except such as might have been settled at the department but for the loss of vouchers; and that no allowance shall be made for any interest of the said Richard O’Brien in the cargo of the polacre Vickelage, captured on her passage from Algiers to the United States.
Approved, .