Volume 6
Private Law 17–CIII
for the relief of Matthew M’Nair.
Approved May 7, 1822
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Matthew M’Nair.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle
Claim to be settled for destruction of a flat-bottomed boat.
the claim of Matthew M’Nair, on account of the destruction of a schooner-rigged flat bottomed boat, called the Columbia, while in the public service at the French Mills, in the fall of eighteen hundred and thirteen, by order of the commanding officer at that post; and to allow him for said vessel the value thereof, not exceeding three thousand dollars, together with his reasonable expenses for navigating said vessel while in the public service, crediting the United States with any sums of money paid to said M’Nair, on account of the contract of charter party for the same vessel; and that the balance which may be found due to the said M’Nair, be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .