Chapter 59. for the relief of the owners, officers, and crew of the British bark Chance
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CHAP. 59.— An Act for the relief of the owners, officers, and crew of the British bark Chance.March 31, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,“Chance.” That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to draw his requisition upon the Secretary of the Treasury for the payment, out of any money in the TreasuryPayment to owners, etc., of British bark. not otherwise appropriated, of the sum of sixteen thousand dollars to the duly accredited representative of the Government of Great Britain at Washington, to enable said Government to pay the same to the owners of the British bark Chance, of the port of Sydney, New South Wales, to indemnify them, and the officers and crew of said bark, for abandoning their whaling voyage in the Arctic Ocean, in the month of September, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and rescuing from ship-wreck ninety-six American seamen and transporting them to Honolulu.
Approved, March 31, 1890.