Private Law 28–CXXIII

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to True Putney and Hugh Riddle, of the city

Payment for extra work on U.S. warehouse at Baltimore.

of Baltimore, the sum of sixteen hundred and seventy-two dollars and sixty-one cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount of extra work and material not embraced by their contract to do the stone-work of the United States warehouse in said city in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, but furnished for said building by direction of the architect and superintendent thereof.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That the accounting officers of

An account to be stated between them and the U. S. government, dec.

the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to examine all papers and proofs in the case, and to state an account between the United States and the said Putney and Riddle, allowing them such sum as may seem equitable by way of indemnity for the losses sustained by them in consequence of the Government not providing for the building of the custom-house at Baltimore, in time to allow the said Putney and Riddle to execute their contract in the time stipulated therein, and that the sum so allowed be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, The same do not exceed eight thousand

Proviso.

dollars.