Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, instructed to ascertain the amount of damages sustained by Daniel Robinson, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, in consequence of a violation, on the part of the United States, of a contract made between the United States and the said Daniel Robinson, and to pay to him, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the said amount of damages by him sustained.

Approved, March 3, 1849.