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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · July 27, 1854 · Chapter CXLIX

Chapter CXLIX. *for the Relief of the Window and Orphans of the Officers and Seamen of the United States Schooner Grampus, who were lost in that vessel in March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, near the coast of the United States.* July 27, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the U

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Chap. CXLIX.— An Act *for the Relief of the Window and Orphans of the Officers and Seamen of the United States Schooner Grampus, who were lost in that vessel in March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, near the coast of the United States.* July 27, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in-Congress assembled,* That the same provision as is Provisions of the acts 1848, ch. 179, and 1853, ch. 43 extended to the widows and orphans of the officers and seamen of late United States schooner Grampus.made by the act entitled, “An act for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen, and marines, of the brig Somers,” approved the fourteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and an act for the relief of the widows and relatives of certain officers and seamen of the United States brig Washington, who were dost overboard in a hurricane, approved February the third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, be also extended to the widows and orphans of the officers and seamen who were lost in the United States schooner Grampus in the gale of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, near the coast of the United States.
Approved, July 27, 1854.
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