Chapter 51.
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CHAP. 51.— An act in relation to the Japanese Indemnity fund Feb. 22, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress, assembled*, That the President be, and hePayment of Japanese indemnity fund.Appropriation. is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the Government of Japan the sum of seven hundred and eighty five thousand dollars and eighty-seven cents, in legal coin, through tho United States minister, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Japan, and all bonds now under the control of the Department of State and known and designated in the accounts and reports of said department as the Japanese indemnity fund, shall be cancelled and destroyed.
Sec. 2 That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorizedPayment to officers and crew of the ship Wyoming, etc., and of the steamer Taklang. and directed to cause the sum of one hundred and forty thousand dollars to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to the officers and crew of the United States ship Wyoming, or to their legal representatives, for extraordinary, valuable, and specially meritorious and perilous services in the destruction of hostile vessels in the straits of Shimonoseki on the sixteenth day of July eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and to the officers and crew of the steamer Taklang who were detached from the United States ship Jamestown, or to their 422 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 51, 52. 1883. legal representatives, for similar services on the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth days of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; said sum to be distributed to the said officers and crews according to the laws of the United States governing the distribution of prize-money: *Provisos.**Provided,* That for the purpose of such distribution the officers and crew detached as aforesaid who manned the Taklang shall be regarded as a part of the forces of the Wyoming on the sixteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and according to their rank and position on the eighth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-four ; *And provided further,* That in such distribution no payment shall be made to the assignee of any mariner, but to the mariner himself only or to his duly-authorized attorney, or, in case of his decease, to his legal representatives or their duly-authorized attorney.
Approved, February 22, 1883.