said collector is authorized and directed to make and pay to the said Silvanus Crowell, or other agent of the owners of the said schooners, such allowance as they would have been entitled to, under the act aforesaid, provided the said agreements had been produced to said collector.
Approved, March 19, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. ⅩⅩⅩⅡ.—An Act making an appropriation for the payment of a balance found due to the legal representatives of William Carmichael, deceased.
Settlement with heirs of W. Carmichael.Be it enacted, &c., That the sum of nine thousand six hundred and sixty dollars, and fourteen cents, be, and the same hereby is appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated, for discharging the balance found due to the legal representatives of William Carmichael, deceased, late Charge des Affaires from the United States in Spain, upon the settlement of the accounts between the said William Carmichael and the United States.
Approved, April 27, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. ⅩⅬ.—An Act for the relief of Obadiah Brown.
Be it enacted, &c.,To be placed on pension list. That the Secretary for the Department of War, be, and he is hereby directed to place upon the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, at the rate and proportion of one-fourth of a pension, the name of Obadiah Brown, late a private soldier, who has been returned as an invalid by the judge of the district of New York, pursuant to an act of Congress,Act of Feb. 28, 1793, ch. 17. passed the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An act to regulate claims to invalid pensions.”
Sec. 2. Rate of pension, &c. And be it further enacted, That the said pension shall be estimated at the same rate, receivable on the same condition, and payable in the same manner, in all respects, as directed in like cases, by an act, passed at the present session,Act of Feb. 2, 1798, ch. 12. entitled, “An act directing the Secretary at War to place certain persons on the pension list.”
Approved, May 4, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. ⅩⅬⅠ.—An Act directing the payment of a detachment of militia, for services performed in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, under Major James Ore.
Accounts of certain militia to be settled.Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers be, and they are hereby authorized to settle the accounts of the militia who served on an expedition commanded by Major James Ore, against the lower Cherokee Indians, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four; and that the same be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 8, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. ⅩⅬⅣ.—An Act for the relief of William Imlay.
