Chapter CXIV. for the Relief of Zachariah Lawrence, of Ohio
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Chap. CXIV.— An Act for the Relief of Zachariah Lawrence, of Ohio. Feb. 17, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Zachariah Lawrence to be paid $2,645.40 for prize money for capture of the Venture. That there be paid to Zachariah Lawrence, of Morgan county, in the State of Ohio, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-six hundred and forty-five dollars and forty cents, his portion of the prize money for capturing and taking into the port of Passamaquoddy, in eighteen hundred Payment to others on proof of claim.and thirteen, the British sloop “Venture.
” And there shall be paid to each of the other persons composing the boat’s crew, severally, or to their legal representatives, the sum of thirteen hundred and twenty-two dollars and seventy cents, as the share of each in the capture of the said sloop “Venture,” on satisfactory proof being made to the Secretary of the Treasury of their being such persons, or their legal representatives. Approved, February 17, 1855.