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 is hereby, authorized and directed to pay Joshua Barney, United States agent for the construction and improvement of roads and harbors in the Territory of Iowa, under the direction of the Topographical Bureau, the sum of one hundred and four dollars and fifty cents, with six per centum interest from the first of January, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, it being an over-payment beyond the appropriation made by Congress for constructing a military road from Dubuque to Keosaqua, on the Des Moines, Iowa Territory.

Approved, March 2, 1849.