Chapter CLXXVI. *for the Settlement of the Claims of W
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Chap. CLXXVI.— An Act *for the Settlement of the Claims of W. P. Buckner and Pierce Crosby, Passed Midshipmen in the United States Navy.* Aug. 1, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America tn Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the W. P. Buckner and P; Crosby’s claims to a part of proceeds of sale of schooner Oregon and cargo to be settled and paid. THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 177, 178, 179, 180. 1854. 807Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to adjust and settle the claims of W.
P. Buckner, passed midshipman, and Pierce Crosby, passed midshipman and acting master in the United States Navy, for a share of the proceeds of the sale of the schooner Oregon and cargo, seized and confiscated in the month of April, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, under the President’s regulations of the first of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, at the port of Tampico, during the war with Mexico, and to pay the said claims, out of any moneys in the treasury What fund to be paid from.
Proviso.arising from military contributions collected in Mexico in pursuance of the regulations of the President before referred to: *Provided,* That before any money is paid in these eases, any claim submitted by the owners of the vessels beforementioned, for the remission of the penalty and the payment of the proceeds under the confiscation, shall first be duly examined and decided by the Secretary of the Treasury, under the direction of the President of the United States. Approved, August 1, 1854.