Chapter CCXII. for the Relief of S
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CHAP. CCXII.— An Act for the Relief of S. B. Mitchell, George W. Mitchell, John W. Mitchell, and William Webster. May 23, 1872. *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 of schooner “Thomas J. Frazier,” &c. ihoney in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to S. B. Mitchell, George W. Mitchell, and John W. Mitchell, the owners of the schooner “Thomas J. Frazier,” sunk while in the service of the United States by a shot from the United States frigate “Congress,” during the engagement between the said “Congress ” and the rebel vessel “Merrimac,” the sum of two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars and eighty-seven cents, that being the amount paid by the owners for repairing the said schooner “Thomas J.
Frazier,” and the sum of four hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty cents to William Webster for raising the same. Approved, May 23, 1872.