Chapter CLXVI. *for the Relief of Captain Lewis E
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Chap. CLXVI.— An Act *for the Relief of Captain Lewis E. Simonds.* July 29, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and required to pay [to] Captain Lewis E. Simonds to be paid $800.Lewis E. Simonds, of the United States Navy, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight hundred dollars, it being for his expenses incurred in defending himself against two suits brought against him for arresting and detaining the brig Casket, on the coast of Africa, on charge of being engaged in the slave trade, in eighteen hundred and forty-six, the said Simonds being then in command of the United States armed vessel called the Marion, and acting in the line of his duty.
Approved, July 29, 1854.