Volume 6
Private Law 16–LXXXII
for the relief of John D. Carter.
Approved May 8, 1820
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of John D. Carter.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That there be paid to John D. Carter, out of any
$5987.90 to be paid to him, being amount of U. S. portion of prize goods captured in the Mandarin, &c.
money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated by law, the sum of five thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven dollars and ninety cents, being that part of the proceeds of certain goods and merchandise, belonging to the said John D. Carter, captured on board the ship Mandarin, and brought into the port of Philadelphia, and there condemned, as prize of war, which were paid into the treasury of the United States, as the United States’ portion of said prize.
Approved, .