Chapter CXLIX. for the Relief of David Myerle
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Chap. CXLIX.— An Act for the Relief of David Myerle.June 16, 1860. *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, directed to pay to David Myerle, out of anyPayment of $30,000 to David Myerle for losses, &c., in testing process of water-retting hemp. money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, for losses, sacrifices, and expenses incurred by him in testing and establishing the practicability and safety of the process of water-rotting hemp, under the direction of the Navy Department. Approved, June 16, 1860.