THATthere be paid to John Black, late consul of the United States at the City of Mexico, the rate of compens-ation allowed by law to a charge d’affaires of the United States for his diplomatic Services to the United States in Mexico, during the suspension of diplomatic intercourse between Mexico and the United States, from the tenth of May, eighteen hundred and forty five, to the third day of April, eighteen hundred and forty seven inclusive, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That there be paid as aforesaid, to the aforesaid John Black, such additional sum as may be found due by the proper accounting officers of the treasury to cover his extraordinary expenditures incurred by him, the said Black, in consequence of his forcible expulsion from Mexico, and in bringing with him to the United States the archives of legation of the United States: Provided, however, That the sum thus allowed for indemnity shall not exceed eleven hundred and twenty four dollars.