Private Law 17–CII

That the proper accounting officers of the treasury

To be credited for certain moneys.

department be, and they are hereby, authorized to pass to the credit of John Byers, such sum as shall be satisfactorily shown to have been the depreciation on treasury notes, advanced by the government, and expended by him, in the supply of rations in the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island, from the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, to the thirty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, both days inclusive, taking for the rule of allowance the difference in value between the treasury notes so advanced, and the money current at par in those states, at the periods when the advances were made; and confining the allowance to the loss on the sums actually expended within the periods above mentioned: Provided, It shall be made to appear, to the satisfaction of

Proviso.

the said officers, that, after the contract of the said John Byers, the Secretary of War did promise the indemnity provided by this act.