United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/13th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 5
Nov. 21, 1814.
Chap. V.—An Act for the relief of John Chalmers, junior.
Allowance for cordage.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the navy department be, and they are hereby directed to settle the account of John Chalmers, Jr., and to allow the same for actual disbursements by him made, in the manufacture of cordage for the United States’ frigate Java, upon such terms as may embrace the justice of his case.
Appropriation.Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when liquidated by the proper authority, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, November 21, 1814.