Chapter LXV. for the Relief of the Owners, Officers, and Crew of the Spanish Bark “Providencia.”May 12, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there be paid, out of anyPayment to owners, &c. of bark “Providencia” for wrongful s
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Chap. LXV.— An Act for the Relief of the Owners, Officers, and Crew of the Spanish Bark “Providencia.”May 12, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there be paid, out of anyPayment to owners, &c. of bark “Providencia” for wrongful seizure, &c. money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the order of the proper functionary of her Catholic Majesty’s government, the sum of two thousand seven hundred and ninety-one dollars and ninety-one cents, as full compensation to the owners of the Spanish bark “Providencia,” or their legal representatives, for damages occasioned by reason of the wrongful seizure and detention of said bark by a steamer of the United States blockading squadron, in the month of November last; and also as full compensation to the master, mate, and crew of said bark; the said sum to be distributed agreeably to the two several awards of Moses Taylor, esquire, to whom the claim was referred for adjustment.
Approved, May 12, 1862.