United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 126
Chap. CXXVI.—An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend the payment of certain bills drawn by John Armstrong, late minister of the United States at the Court of France, upon the Treasury of the United States.
Secretary of the Treasury may suspend the payment of certain bills under Louisiana convention drawn by John Armstrong.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and required to cause to be suspended the payment at the treasury of the United States, of certain bills drawn by John Armstrong, late minister of the United States at the court of France, in favour of the cashier of the French treasury, amounting to one hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and thirty-four francs and forty-one hundredths of a franc, for certain claims arising under the Louisiana convention in favour of citizens of the United States, which the French government, by virtue of an agreement entered into with said minister, had assumed to pay, until satisfactory proof shall have been exhibited to the accounting officers of the treasury, that the said bills or a sum equal thereto, have been applied for the purpose of discharging the claims of citizens of the United States against the government of France, which have been liquidated and awarded to them under the provisions of the convention of the thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and the French republic.
Approved, July 6, 1812.