Chapter XXIV. for the Relief of the United States Troops who were Sufferers by the recent Disaster to the Steamship San Francisco
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Chap. XXIV.— An Act for the Relief of the United States Troops who were Sufferers by the recent Disaster to the Steamship San Francisco. March 27, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That there shall be paid, underPayment to certain persons on board the San Francisco. the direction of the President, to each of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, who, on the twenty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, embarked at New York, under orders for California, on the steamship San Francisco, and who was on hoard that vessel on the occasion of her recent disaster at sea, and to Lieutenant Francis Key Murray, and any other officer or seaman of the United States’ navy, who was on board the said steamship, under orders, a sum equal in amount to his pay and allowances for eight months.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That if any such officer, non-commissionedIn case of death to whom payment is to be made. officer, musician, or private, shall have died before receiving such payment, from any cause consequent upon said disaster, his widow, if one survive him, and if not, then his minor children, if any there be, shall be paid a sum equal in amount to six months’ pay, and allowances of the deceased. And that the widows and minor children of those officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, who perished by this disaster, or who died from disease in consequence thereof, shall be allowed pensions in the same manner in all respects as if the said officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates had been killed in battle.
Approved, March 27, 1854.