Feb. 1, 1849.
Chap. XXXVIII. — An Act to provide for the Settlement of the Claim of Henry Washington, late a Deputy
Surveyor of the Public Lands in Florida.
Claims of Henry Washington for damages on account of the abrogation of a contract
made with him to be adjusted.
Amount found due to be paid him.
Proviso.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized
and required to settle and adjust the claims of Henry Washington, late a deputy surveyor
of the public lands in Florida, for damages sustained by him on account of the abrogation,
by the surveyor-general of the district of Florida, of a contract, made by him on
the twenty-
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sixth of July, eighteen hundred and forty-five, to make certain surveys of public lands in said district; and such sum or sums of money, if any, as shall
be found due to said Washington on account of loss or damage sustained in consequence
of the abrogation of said contract, and directly resulting therefrom, shall be paid
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, however, That the damages to be allowed on such settlement shall not exceed the nett profits,
had the contract been fully executed by the said Washington.
Approved, February 1, 1849.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Private Acts, 30th Cong., 2nd sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 757-58