Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officer of the treasury be, and are hereby, authorized to allow to Benjamin J. Cahoone, in the settlement of his accounts as purser, the sum of two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-seven cents, for the services of Mr. Fleming, late captain's clerk on board the United States frigate Congress, who performed the additional duties of purser's clerk during a part of the late cruise of said frigate.

Approved, August 14, 1848.