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, directed to pay to James Y. Smith the sum of three thousand and sixty-four dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full of his claim against the United States, for the use of the steamboat Hyperion, and damage done to her in the transportation of the Georgia troops under command of Major Howard in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and also for provisions and supplies furnished to said troops.

Approved, February 26, 1849.