United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 124
Chap. CXXIV.—An Act for transferring the claims in the office of the commissioner to the third auditor of the Treasury Department.
All claims under the act authorizing payment of property lost, &c. not finally acted on &c., transferred to the office of the third auditor.
Act of 1816, ch. 40.
Act of 1817, ch. 110.
The third auditor to be governed by the same rules, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all claims under the act, entitled “An act to authorize the payment of property lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes,” passed on the ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and the act in amendment thereof, passed the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, now remaining in the office of the commissioner of claims, and not acted on finally by said commissioner before the ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the office of the third auditor of the Treasury Department; and the said third auditor, in all adjudications upon the claims aforesaid, shall be governed, in all respects, by the same rules, regulations, and restrictions, as have heretofore been prescribed to the commissioner of claims under the above-recited acts.
500 dolls. for performing the duties under this act.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the third auditor aforesaid, for performing the duties hereby required by him, shall be allowed and paid the sum of five hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 20, 1818.