Chapter CCLXIX. for the relief of Thomas Holdup Stevens, and others
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Chap. CCLXIX.— An Act for the relief of Thomas Holdup Stevens, and others.July 14, 1832. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause the sum of two thousand dollars to be $2000 to be distributed to captors of a certain piratical Felucca. distributed, as prize money, to Captain Thomas Holdup Stevens, of the United States’ Navy, and the other captors of a piratical Felucca within the Colorados reef, in the West Indies, in April, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, which vessel was taken into the service of the United States; and that the said sum be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for the purpose aforesaid, out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 14, 1832.