Volume 6
Private Law 21–LXXXV
for the relief of Charles Wilkes, junior.
Approved May 5, 1830
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Charles Wilkes, junior.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the proper accounting officer of the treasury allow to Charles Wilkes, junior, a lieutenant in the naval service of the
Payment for mathematical instruments, &c.
United States, and to any other person or persons with whom he may have contracted for the same, all such sums of money as he shall have paid, or, in the case of such other person or persons, he shall have contracted to pay them, for such astronomical and mathematical instruments, as, by the letter of the Secretary of the Navy to him, dated the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, he was directed to procure for the exploring expedition to the Pacific Ocean and South Seas, on said accounting officer being furnished with satisfactory evidence that the respective articles are of the value and quality specified in the contract therefor, and have been delivered to such person or persons as the Secretary of the Navy shall have directed: Provided, The amount to be allowed and paid for the said instruments,
Proviso.
exclusive of the sums already paid by the navy department and navy agent at New York, shall not exceed the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars; which sum is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .