Chapter 263. for the relief of the owners and crews of the American whaling-vessels Midas, Progress, Lagoda, Daniel Webster, and Europa
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CHAP. 263.— An Act for the relief of the owners and crews of the American whaling-vessels Midas, Progress, Lagoda, Daniel Webster, and Europa.February 21, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,“Midas,” “Progress.” “Lagoda,” “Daniel Webster“; and “Europa.”Payment to owners for rescue of 900 seamen. That the Secretary of the Treasury be. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the owners (through their legal representatives) of each of the vessels Midas.
Progress. Lagoda, Daniel Webster, and Europa, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nineteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-one dollars and twenty-seven cents to the owners of the vessel Midas, twenty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-seven dollars and ninety-five cents to the owners of the vessel Daniel Webster, twenty-three thousand six hundred and eleven dollars and twenty cents to the owners of the vessel Lagoda, twenty-six thousand one hundred and eleven dollars 1368FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Chs. 263-265. 1891. and thirty-two cents to the owners of the vessel Progress, and thirty-three thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine dollars and sixteen cents to the owners of the vessel Europa, in full compensation for losses sustained and services rendered by them in abandoning their business of whale-catching and rescuing nine hundred seamen in the Arctic seas. Sec. 2. That said moneys shall be paid over to the owners of eachDistribution. of said vessels, for the benefit of themselves; and of such of the officers and crews of said vessels, respectively, as were engaged in that particular season of the cruise in the Arctic Ocean during which said rescue was made, and such moneys shall be distributed by the owners between themselves and said officers and crews in the proportion to their respective lays, and in the same manner as the ordinary earnings from the said cruise would have been distributed.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall not be bound to see to the application of said moneys by the owners. Sec. 3. That said owners, respectively, shall deliver to the SecretaryReceipts. of the Treasury, upon the receipt of said money, and in behalf of themselves and said officers and crews, a full discharge of all claims, equitable or otherwise, which they have, or think they in any way have, against the United States on account of the aforesaid losses and services. Approved, February 21, 1891.