Private Law 19–LXXIV

That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the claim

Claim for hire, &c. of team and wagon, to be settled.

of Thomas C. Withers, for the hire of his team of five horses, wagon, gear, and driver, into the service of the United States, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, and for the said wagon and gear, and four of the said horses, which were destroyed, lost, or consumed in said service, upon the principles of the act, entitled “An act to authorize the payment

Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.

for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixteen, in the same manner as if the claim had been presented within two years from the passage of said act; and to pay him for said services, and for the said property so destroyed, lost, or consumed, as aforesaid, so much as, including the amount paid him during said service, on account thereof, and also, the amount paid him under the law passed for his relief, eighth of May, one thousand

Act of May 8, 1820, ch. 72.

eight hundred and twenty, he would have been entitled to receive under the provisions of the said act of April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixteen, aforesaid. And the sum thus found due him, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.