United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/5th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 3
Chap. Ⅲ.—An Act authorizing the payment of certain sums of money to the daughters of the late Count de Grasse.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriation for each of the four daughters of Count de Grasse. That in consideration of the important services rendered to the United States by the late Count de Grasse, there be paid annually, in quarter-yearly payments, during five years from the time of passing this act, out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred dollars to each of the four daughters of the said Count de Grasse, namely, Amelia de Grasse, Adelaide de Grasse, Melanie de Grasse, and Silvie de Grasse, if they shall, respectively, so long live.
Approved, January 15, 1798.