Chapter XLVIII. for the Relief of Sylvester Humphrey and the Heirs of Alexander Humphrey, deceased
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Chap. XLVIII.— An Act for the Relief of Sylvester Humphrey and the Heirs of Alexander Humphrey, deceased. Jan. 25, 1855. *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 he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Sylvester$2,500 to be paid to Sylvester Humphrey and heirs of Alexander Humphrey. Humphrey and the heirs of Alexander Humphrey, deceased, the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars—one moiety thereof to Sylvester Humphrey, and the other moiety to the heirs of Alexander Humphrey, deceased—for rebuilding the wharf at Staten Island after it had been destroyed by the storm of the third of September, eighteen hundred and twenty-one.
Approved, January 25, 1855.