Volume 6
Private Law 16–CXXXVII
for the relief of the legal representatives of Nathaniel P. Tatum.
Approved June 23, 1836
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of the legal representatives of Nathaniel P. Tatum.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Navy ascertain the
The Secretary of the Navy to examine and certify his account.
damages, if any, the United States sustained, on the failure of Nathaniel P. Tatum to deliver the full quantity of white oak plank stocks at the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, according to his contract with the United States, dated the nineteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine; and having deducted said damages, if any, from the ten per cent, reserved out of the price of the plank delivered, he is directed to certify what remains, if any deduction shall be made, and if not, then the entire amount of said ten per cent, to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is directed to pay said amount, so certified, to the legal representatives of the said Nathaniel P. Tatum, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .