Feb. 26, 1849.
(No. 9)—Joint Resolution concerning the Settlement of the Accounts of William Speiden, Purser in the Navy of the United States.
Accounting officers of the treasury to settle his accounts and credit him with the
amount of such provisions, clothing, stores, money, &c., as was lost with the loss
of the U.S. vessel Peacock.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the treasury, under the direction of the Secretary
of the Navy, be, and they are hereby, authorized to settle the accounts of William
Speiden, purser in the navy of the United States, and to credit him with such portion
of the amount of the provisions, clothing, small stores, and money, and such other
things as belong appropriately to the custody of the purser’s department, with which
he stands charged on the books of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, as they shall
be satisfied was inevitably lost with the loss of the United States vessel Peacock,
at the mouth of the Columbia River, in eighteen hundred and forty-one; and that he
be fully exonerated, by such credit, from all liability on account of the provisions,
clothing, small stores, money, and any other articles with which he stands charged,
proved to have been lost on board said vessel.
Approved, February 26, 1849.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Private Acts, IX, 30th Cong., 2nd sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 793