United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/18th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 47
Chap. XLVII.—An Act rewarding the officers and crews of two gigs, or small boats, under the command of Lieutenant Francis H. Gregory, of the United States’ Navy.
3000 dollars to be distributed as prize money to Lieutenant Francis H. Gregory, &c. for the capture and destruction of a British gunboat, in June, 1814.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to have distributed as prize money to Lieutenant Francis H. Gregory, of the United States’ navy, and the officers and crews of two gigs, or small boats, under his command, or to their legal representatives, the sum of three thousand dollars, for the captures and destruction of a British gun-boat, called the Black Snake, in the river St. Lawrence, on the nineteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and that the said sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for the purpose aforesaid, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 4, 1824.