BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, THATthe Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to ascertain what sum should be justly and equitably allowed the firm of Ward and Smith, for advances made by them for the use of the Navy Department in California, in the month of February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and to certify the amount to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall pay the same out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.