Private Law 23–CCXXXIII

That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to

Account of C. B. Penrose to be adjusted, and allowance made.

settle and adjust the accounts of Clement B. Penrose for his services as one of the land commissioners for the territory of Louisiana, and allow him at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum, from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine, to the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, deducting from said allowance, whatever sum or sums he may have received on account of his said services, performed within the time aforesaid; and which said allowance shall be paid to Anna Howard Penrose, widow of the said Clement B. Penrose, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury

Payment to W. C. H. Waddell, being indemnity for damages, with interest, &c.

be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to William C. H. Waddell, Marshal of the Southern District of New York, the sum of three thousand one hundred and twenty-four dollars, and thirty-eight cents, being the balance of a judgment recovered against said Waddell as Marshal aforesaid, in the circuit court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, in a suit brought against him to recover the value of a certain importation of brandy, seized by that officer on behalf of the United States, as the supposed property of William M. and J. Waddie, together with legal interest on the amount of said judgment from the time the same was paid by the said Marshal.