Private Law 25–CXLIX

That there be paid to Benjamin Hewitt, of Saint Mary’s county, in the state of Maryland, or his legal representatives, the

Payment for a slave lost.

sum of two hundred and eighty dollars, out of the fund (if so much there be unapplied) which was allotted by the British Government, under the first article of the treaty of Ghent, and the subsequent convention to carry the same into effect, which he was prevented from recovering before the Board of Commissioners because his proof was mislaid in the Department of State; that being the price of a slave, the property of the said Hewitt (estimated at the average value established for the pay- TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 150, 151, 152, 153. 1839. ment of slaves by the said board which sat under the said convention,) who was conveyed from the United States on board the British fleet, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, and not recovered by the said Hewitt.