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Private Law 25–CCXXXIII
for the settlement of the accounts of Richard Harrison, late consular agent of the United Slates in Spain.
Approved July 7, 1838
Statutory text
An Act
for the settlement of the accounts of Richard Harrison, late consular agent of the United Slates in Spain.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, directed to audit and settle TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234, 235, 236. 1838. according to the resolutions of Congress of the third of June, seventeen
Accounts to be settled according to resolutions of June 3, 1784; and interest on money advanced to be paid, &c.
hundred and eighty-four, for the settlement of public accounts, the accounts of Richard Harrison, formerly consular agent of the United States at Cadiz, in Spain, and to allow him the interest on the money advanced, under agreement with the minister of the United States in Spain, for the relief of destitute and distressed American seamen, and for their passages to the United States, from the time the advances respectively were made, to the time at which the said advances were reimbursed; and for the expenses of employing an interpreter and clerk in the service of the United States, the sum of one thousand dollars per year for the time he acted as agent, viz; from seventeen hundred and eighty to seventeen hundred and eighty-five; and the sum found due shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .