Chapter XXXV. for the Relief of the Owners of the Norwegian Bark “Admiral P
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Chap. XXXV.— An Act for the Relief of the Owners of the Norwegian Bark “Admiral P. Tordenskiold.”February 14, 1863. *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 anyDamages to Norwegian bark “Admiral P. Tordenskiold.” money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the order of the proper functionary of His Majesty, the King of Sweden and Norway, the sum of fourteen thousand three hundred and nine dollars and thirteen cents, in coin, as full compensation to the owners of the Norwegian bark “Admiral P.
Tordenskiold,” or their legal representatives, for damages sustained by the said bark by reason of being prevented by the commander of the United States blockading force at Charleston, in May, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, from leaving the said port with cargo, the said bark having innocently entered during a brief interval in which the blockading force was absent. Approved, February 14, 1863.