Volume 6
Private Law 18–LXX
for the relief of Alvin Bronson.
Approved May 17, 1824
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Alvin Bronson.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Alvin Bronson, or his legal
Payment to be made to him for value of his schooner Penelope, captured.
representative, or representatives, the sum of three thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated; being the value of his schooner called the Penelope, captured by the British at Oswego, during the late war, while in the military service of the United States, without an agreement that the risk was to have been incurred by the owner.
Approved, .