Thirtieth Congress,
thi Second Session,
BE IT ENACTED
By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress Assembled.

That there be paid to Zachariah Lawrence, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, thirteen hundred and twenty two-dollars and seventy cents, in the nature of salvage: Provided, It shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that said Zachariah Lawrence commanded the boat that captured, and took into the port of Passamaquoddy, the British sloop Venture, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and has received no compensation for that service.