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 to pay to John Hardorp, of the city of New York, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred and eighteen dollars and sixty cents, being the amount of a certain penalty incurred by him under the seventeenth section of the act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved thirtieth August, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty-two, and which penalty was remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury on the fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty-seven.

Approved, August 7, 1848.