Volume 6
Private Law 25–XCV
for the relief of John P. Austin and Edward N. Taller.
Approved June 7, 1838
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of John P. Austin and Edward N. Taller.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of War shall examine the
Claim for damages to be examined.
claim of John P. Austin and Edward N. Tailer, acting under the firm of Austin and Tailer, for damages which they allege they sustained in the execution of a contract entered into by them, in eighteen hundred and thirty-two, for the delivery of a quantity of stone in the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina; that he procure such further testimony as to him may appear necessary; that he adjust and settle said claim, allowing them such sum as may be justly their due: and that he certify such sum as he shall so find to be due to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury
Appropriation.
pay, out of any unappropriated money, to John P. Austin and Edward N. Tailer, such sum as the Secretary of War may certify to him, as is provided in the first section of this act, to be due to said Austin and Tailer.
Approved, .