Chapter 68. for the relief of the owner of the bark Grapeshot
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CHAP. 68.— An Act for the relief of the owner of the bark Grapeshot.April 24, 1880. *Be it enacted, by the Senate and, House of Representatives of the United Slates of America in Congress assembled*,George Law. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to George Law, of the city and State of New York, the sum of fifteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-one dollars and fifty cents, the same properly belonging to said Law, and being a deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the registry of the United Deposit in the Treasury to be returned.States district court for the eastern district of Louisiana as the avails of the sale under a libel brought to said court of the bark Grapeshot, owned by said Law and of certain freight earned by said bark; all the demands of the libellants in said cause having been fully satisfied by said Law, and he by order of the circuit court of the fifth circuit of the United States, before which said cause was pending, having been legally subrogated to all the rights of the libellants in the premises.
Approved, April 24, 1880.