Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officer of the Navy Department, or the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury Department, enter in the account of Captain John Percival a credit equal to the amount there charged against said Percival, for money paid by the purser of the United States frigate Constitution, on her voyage to the Indian Ocean, and elsewhere, in the years eighteen hundred and forty-four and eighteen hundred and forty-five, to Doctor J. C. Reinhardt, as naturalist; and cancel such account and charge against said John Percival, for all money charged as aforesaid against him, whether paid by the purser, or by himself, or by his order, to said Reinhardt or Chandler, acting as naturalist, chaplain, or passed mid-shipman.

Approved, February 1, 1849.