Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and are hereby, authorized to settle the account of Joseph Nourse, in conformity with the award and decree of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, as affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States, and that any balance which may be found due him on said decree be paid to his legal representatives out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, June 28, 1848.