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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · August 23, 1856 · Chapter XVIII

Chapter XVIII. *for the Relief of Captain Thomas Ap Catesby Jones.* August 23, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proper accounting officer of the treasury be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Captain Tho

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Chap. XVIII.— An Act *for the Relief of Captain Thomas Ap Catesby Jones.* August 23, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proper accounting officer of the treasury be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Captain Thomas Ap Catesby Jones the sum of nine hundred Capt. T. Ap Cates by Jones to be paid $900.dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full for the moneys paid by him to Hall McAllister, Esq., as counsel on the trial of Black and five others for mutiny, before a general naval court-martial on board the sloop-of-war “Warren,” in October, eighteen hundred and forty-nine.
Approved, August 23, 1856.
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