Chapter CCXXXI. for the Relief of the Children of Otway H
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CHAP. CCXXXI.— An Act for the Relief of the Children of Otway H. Berryman, deceased. May 28, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the proper accountingPayment to children of Otway H. Berryman. officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to allow and pay to Mrs. Columbia N. Payne, Mrs. Alice Bromwell, Calvert O. Berryman, and William M. Berryman, children of Otway H.
Berryman, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars and two cents, being the amount of losses sustained by said Otway H. Berryman while commanding and acting as purser of the United States schooner Onkahye: *Provided,* That the same shall not exceed the amount which a purser would have received for performing the same duties on board of said vessel. Approved, May 28, 1872.