Private Law 27–CCXV

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he

Payment for property destroyed.

hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James Tongue, the sum of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven dollars and seventy-eight cents; and to John ' Scrivener the sum of three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; and to the legal representatives of William Hodson, deceased, the sum of three thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-nine cents; the same being for their buildings, valued at the sums aforesaid, which were occupied by a detachment of militia, and in consequence thereof destroyed by the British, about the month of October, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.