Volume 6
Private Law 17–XLII
for the relief of James May and the representatives of William Macomb.
Approved May 1, 1822
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of James May and the representatives of William Macomb.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized
Payment for injuries done to their property by U. S. troops.
to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight hundred dollars to James May, of Detroit, or his legal representatives; and the sum of two thousand nine hundred dollars to the legal representatives of the late William Macomb, of Detroit, deceased; being in full compensation for injuries done to the property pertaining to the farm of the said James May, and the farm late of the said William Macomb, in the vicinity of Detroit, by the troops of the United States, in the late war.
Approved, .