Chapter XLVIII. *for the Relief of the Widows and Relatives of certain Officers and Seamen of the United States brig Washington, who were lost overboard in a hurricane.* Feb. 3, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the same prov
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Chap. XLVIII.— An Act *for the Relief of the Widows and Relatives of certain Officers and Seamen of the United States brig Washington, who were lost overboard in a hurricane.* Feb. 3, 1853. *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 Relief to widows and relatives of the officers and crew of the Washington.made by the act entitled “An act for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen and marines of the brig-of-war Somers,” approved the fourteenth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, be THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 40, 50, 51, 52. 1853. 749also extended to the widows and relatives of those officers and seamen of the navy attached to the United States brig Washington, who were lost overboard in a hurricane, on the seventh of September, eighteen hundred and forty-six. Approved, February 3, 1853.