Private Law 23–CCVII

That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be authorized, and they are hereby required, to re-adjust the accounts

Account to be re-adjusted, and certain allowances made.

of Andrew Armstrong, late navy agent at Lima, in Peru, and to allow him a commission of five per centum on moneys disbursed and stores distributed; the amount of damages paid by the said Andrew Armstrong on bills drawn by him on the Secretary of the Navy, and protested for non-payment; the sum of four thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents, paid for tobacco purchased of H. McCulloch; and delivered over to Philo White; and, also, the amount of three thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifteen cents, in TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 208, 209, 210, 211. 1834. lieu of all other charges and expenses of clerk hire, stationery, and office rent, and his expenses and compensation during the time he was in Lima, in consequence of the protest of his bills on the Secretary of the Navy, and on his return to the United States.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That the balance found due to

Appropriation.

said Armstrong upon the re-adjustment of his account upon the principles herein directed, be paid to him out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.