Chapter I. to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, for the relief and protection of American seamen
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Chap. I.— An Act to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, for the relief and protection of American seamen.Jan. 22, 1844. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the sum of forty Relief of American seamen. thousand five hundred dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury for the relief and protection of American seamen, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, in pursuance of the act supplementary to the act concerning consuls and vice-consuls and for the further 1803, ch. 9. protection of American seamen, passed the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and three.
Approved, January 22, 1844.