Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to the heirs of Matthew Stewart one hundred and forty-eight dollars and forty-eight cents, in full of all demands, under his claims as set forth in the report of Colonel Totten, of the engineer corps, dated nineteenth of January, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and directed to the Hon. John W. Davis; the said sum to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, August 5, 1848.