Thirtieth Congress
thiFirst Session
Congress of the United States
Resolved By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
CONGRESS ASSEMBLED,

That the accounting officers of the treasury, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, be, and they are hereby, authorized to settle the accounts of William Speiden, purser in the navy of the United States, and to credit him with such portion of the amount of the provisions, clothing, small stores, & money, and such other things as belong appropriately to the custody of the purser’s department, with which he stands charged on the books of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, as they shall be satisfied was inevitably lost with the loss of the United States vessel Peacock, at the mouth of the Columbia river, in eighteen hundred and forty-one; and that he be fully exonerated, by such credit, from all liability, on account of the provisions, clothing, small stores, money, & any other articles with which he stands charged, proved to have been lost on board said vessel.