Volume 6
Private Law 16–CCC
for the relief of the legal representative of Nathaniel Canada.
Approved July 2, 1836
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of the legal representative of Nathaniel Canada.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the proper accounting officer of the treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to ascertain the actual damage sustained
Amount of damages to be ascertained.
by Nathaniel Canada from the burning of his toll-house and bridge, across Niantic river, in the state of Connecticut, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, by the British, while said toll-house and bridge were occupied by the troops of the United States.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the amount, when so ascertained,
Appropriation.
be paid to the legal representative of the said Nathaniel Canada, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .