Private Law 20–CLVII

That the proper accounting officers of the treasury

Expenses of F. H. Gregory in the case of the brig Palmira, to be audited and allowed.

department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and allow the accounts of Lieutenant Francis H. Gregory, late commander of the United States’ schooner Grampus, for expenses incurred by him in prosecuting, in the courts of the United States, the suit in the case of the brig Palmira or Panchita, captured on the high seas for alleged piratical aggressions, and sent into the United States for adjudication, and that the amount of said expenses, when ascertained, be paid to the said Francis H. Gregory, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the

Payment of damages decreed against J. Wilkinson in the case of the schr. Ninfa Catalana.

Secretary of the Navy to pay, content, and satisfy, to the persons who may be legally entitled to receive the same, or who may have legally satisfied and paid the same, the damages and taxed costs decreed to be paid by Jesse Wilkinson, a master commandant in the navy of the United States, to Don Pablo Daunes, by the District Court of the United States, for the District of Virginia, in the cause of the “United States of America, as well in behalf of themselves as of the officers and crew of the United States brig of war Spark, Jesse Wilkinson, Esq., commander, against the schooner Ninfa Catalana, her tackle, apparel, armament, and furniture.” And that the sum of thirteen thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and forty-eight cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.