United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/13th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 40
Chap. XL.—An Act for the relief of Samuel Ellis.
Indemnification to be allowed.Be it enacted, &c., That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to allow Samuel Ellis, of the district of Maine, who acted in the year one thousand eight hundred and eight as deputy marshal under Thomas G. Thornton, marshal of the said district, such indemnification as he, the said secretary, shall deem adequate, for damages which the said Samuel Ellis may have sustained in levying execution, in behalf of the United States, on a quantity of flour in the possession, and supposed to be the property, of a certain John Barton, against whom judgment was obtained by the United States.
Specific appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for carrying this act into effect.
Approved, March 31, 1814.