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Private Law 22–CCLXXI

for the relief of John Brunson.

Approved July 14, 1832

Statutory text

An Act

for the relief of John Brunson.

Be it enacted, &c.,

That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department adjust the claim of John Brunson, for a house and

Claim for property destroyed to be adjusted and paid.

store destroyed by the enemy, in the village of Buffalo, during the late war, and pay to him, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such rateable proportion of the amount of his claim, when liquidated by the Third Auditor of the Treasury, as has been paid to claimants under the act approved third March, one thousand eight hundred

Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 66.

and twenty-five “further to amend the act authorizing payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed, by the enemy, while in the mili-TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 272, 273, 274. 1832.tary service of the United States, and for other purposes; passed ninth April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen:” Provided, That the

Proviso.

proper accounting officer be satisfied that the title of the building so destroyed is in the said John Brunson.

Approved, July 14, 1832.