Supplementary Report of the Committee of Claims, to whom was re-committed, on the 12th of December last, Their Report on the Petition of David Valenzin. 1st February, 1804. Read, and ordered to be referred to a Committee of the whole House on Monday next.

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Concerns the petition for indemnification, also personal compensation, initiated by David Valenzin, of Tripoli, for his cargo on a ship en route from Malta to Tripoli, only to be seized by the U.S. Navy during the Tripolitan war to suppress the predatory Barbary pirates. Valenzin, a Jew, was captured and endured a forced rendition to the United States where he would commit suicide in despair over the protracted delay to receive his payment of the adjudicated settlement. "Report of the Committee of Claims on the Petition of David Valenzin, referred on the Tenth ultimo. 12th December, 1803": pp. [23]-28. The Committee on Claims report of Dec. 12, 1803, is also available as S & S 5412. S & S 7632. Text also in American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States ... Class IX. Claims (Washington, 1834), pp. 288- 89 ("Indemnification for the Illegal Seizure of a Vessel," No. 147, Dec. 12, 1803, 8th Cong., 1st. sess.); pp. 292- 96 ("Indemnity for the Illegal Seizure of a Vessel," Feb. 1, 1804, No. 150, 8th Cong., 1st. sess.). Bruntjen 15201 for the entire American State Papers set commencing publication in 1832.