Volume 6
Private Law 23–CCIX
for the relief of John Bruce.
Approved June 30, 1834
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of John Bruce.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John Bruce,
Payment for certain damages.
six thousand two hundred and forty dollars and sixty-three cents, on the report of General Charles Gratiot, for damages actually sustained by the said John Bruce, by the suspension of his contract to clear out the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, in payment made to his workmen, for their hire, and for damages, and for boarding them when out of employ, and for damages he sustained by the neglect on the part of the United States to furnish a sufficient number of superintendents to inspect the work to have been done.
Approved, .