Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claims of B. O. Tayloe, as set forth in the report of the Committee of Claims of the House of Representatives of July twenty-four, eighteen hundred and forty-six, be referred to the Solicitor of the Treasury to ascertain, from the proof to be submitted by said Tayloe and by the government, whether the buildings were returned to B. O. Tayloe by the Post-Office Department "in a good and tenantable condition;" and if not, to ascertain the amount of damage sustained by said B. O. Tayloe, and the amount so ascertained to have been sustained by said B. O. Tayloe (if any) the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, August 12, 1848.