THAT^[^ the proper accounting officer of the treasury do examine and ascertain, upon evidence to be exhibited to him by Samuel Grice, the value of certain live oak timber which the said Grice, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, had at the mouth of the Halifax river, (or near the same,) on the coast of Florida, there taken, to be carried thence and delivered under a contract between said Grice and the Navy Department; and which delivery was prevented by the intervention of part of the military force, and the same thus lost to said Grice.–^]^

^[^Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the value of said timber be so ascertained at the place aforesaid, in the month of March, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six; and the amount so found, be paid to said Samuel Grice, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.–^]^

Resolved That the Bill from Senate (No. 161) entitled “An Actfor the relief of Samuel Grice. do pass with the following

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following

“That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amount of damages as, from the testimony furnished shall appear to have been sustained by Samuel Grice, in consequence of the seizure of his boat by an officer of the United States Army in the year eighteen hundred and thirty six, so far as said damages have not arisen from the negligence of Said Grice”

Attest