Chapter 174.
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CHAP. 174.— An act for the relief of Charles F. Swain, master of bark Philena.February 16, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Charles F. Swain. Payment to. That there be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Charles F. Swain, late master of the bark Philena, of New York, eight thousand dollars, for going with the said bark and rescuing shipwrecked seamen from an uninhabited island near Cape Hora, at the request of Gorham Parks, then United States consul at Rio de Janeiro, the same having been declared due said Charles F.
Swain by recent findings of the Court of Claims. Approved, February 16, 1889.