Chapter CXLIX. *correcting an Error in the Passage of an Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of the Officers and Crew of the Ship Nightingale,” approved June* 1, 1870
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CHAP. CXLIX.— An Act *correcting an Error in the Passage of an Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of the Officers and Crew of the Ship Nightingale,” approved June* 1, 1870.March 3, 1871.1870, ch. 119.*Ante*, p. 640. Whereas an act for the relief of the officers and crew of the shipPreamble. Nightingale passed the House of Representatives, was certified by the Secretary of the Senate as having passed the Senate, was signed by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, and by the President of the United States, and appears on the statutes as a law properly passed and approved June first, eighteen hundred and seventy, when in reality it never did pass the Senate, and its passage does not appear upon the journal:
Now, to remedy this error, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the said act, so publishedAct in favor of officers and crew of the ship Nightingale made valid. as passed and approved, is hereby made valid to all intents and purposes, as if it had passed the Senate, but no other or greater payment shall be made by virtue of this act than that authorized by said published act. Approved, March 3, 1871.