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TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. Ch. 75, 76,77,78. 1838. 715 Sr II. CHM-. LXXV.—An Jlctfvr the reliq` of Winthrop Sears and others. Apggomlgaa Be it enacted, &c., That the collector at the port of Barnstable, in ——é___ the state of Massachusetts, be authorized and directed to pay to Win- Allowance tot throp Sears, and the late owners, officers, and crew of the fishing il¤*¤l¤8¤<=h<>°¤¤¤ schooner “Laban," of eighty-seven and fourteen ninety-fifth tons bur- l°"°°°°°‘ den, which sailed from Yarmouth, in said state, on the twenty-sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, on a fishing voyage to the Grand Banks, and which was stranded on Sable Island about the sixth day of June of the same year, by which said schooner and all the salt on board were lost, the same she would be entitled to receive by law, as a bounty or drawback, for having been employed five months in the cod fisheries, and using foreign salt on which the duties had been paid; which said sum shall be distributed as the law respecting bounties provides. Approved, April 20, 1838. '—"'”' Srnma IL Gun. LXXVI.-An dot for the relirf of James McMahon. April gg, 1838. Be it enacted, ef-:.-., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to James McMahon three hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifteen cents, out Payment rmof any money not otherwise appropriated, in full payment of his advances °xP°¤3¤¤¤ l¤ Pmfor costs and expenses of several suits arising out of the arrest and Eg? C‘B° prosecution of Charles B. Rouse, formerly a postmaster at Mayville, New ` York. Approved, April 20, 1838. Surun II. Cntr. LXXVII.-dn .£ctfm· the relid of Elias Johns. Ap;-3] gn, ;33g_ Be it enacted, {rc., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Elias Johns seventy-five dollars, the value of a mare lost by him for want of Payment for a forage, in eighteen hundred and fifteen, while engaged in the service ¤¤¤f¢l0¤¤· of the United States, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Ar-rnovnn, April 20, 1838. j S:u·r¤rn·II. CHAP. LXXVIII. —-An dot for the relig" of Phili Marshal, and the legal repre- Apr;] gg, 1338, senlativea of John MarsI{aL —t···— Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury make such further allowance to Philip Marshal for his rations as lieutenant on board Allowance to of a revenue cutter at the Baltimore station, from the first day of April, ,1;;] g*:l!:g:la£°*` one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, until the twenty-fifth of Feb- Hem,,,,",,, &_,,_ mary, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, as will, with what has heretofore been paid to him, make an amount equal to what other lieutenants were entitled who were duly commissioned. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Trea- Furrherallowsury make such further allowance to the legal representatives of John :;';;’ag;':P5‘J Marshal, for the rations of the said John Marshal, as lieutenant on Mmh,l_ ` board of a revenue cutter at the Baltimore station, from the first of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, to the twenty-fifth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, as will, with what has heretofore been paid to the said John Marshal, make an amount equal to what other lieutenants were entitled, who were duly commissioned. _ Sec. 3. And be it farther enacted, That each of said sums be paid Appropriation. out of any money not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 20, 1838.