United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 3

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United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5
United States Congress
4009726United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, Chapter 3United States Congress


Feb. 12, 1842.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. III.An Act making an appropriation for the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriation. That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, for the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries;To be expended according to the act of Feb. 28, 1803, ch. 9. to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, in pursuance of the “act supplementary concerning consuls and vice consuls, and for the further protection of American seamen,” passed twenty-eighth February, eighteen hundred and three.

Approved, February 12, 1842.