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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · June 12, 1838 · Chapter CIX

Chapter CIX. *for the relief of Moses Merrill, and the fishermen of the schooner fortune.*June 12, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That the collector of customs for the district of Newburyport, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, be, and herebyAllowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea. is, authorized and directed

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Chap. CIX.— An Act *for the relief of Moses Merrill, and the fishermen of the schooner fortune.*June 12, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That the collector of customs for the district of Newburyport, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, be, and herebyAllowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea. is, authorized and directed to pay to Moses Merrill, the agent of the schooner Fortune, of ninety-one tons and thirty-two ninety-fifths of a ton burden, upon his showing sufficient authority from each person 720 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 111, 112, 113, 120. 1838. interested, such a sum of money as said vessel would have been entitled to if she had been engaged in the cod-fisheries for the term of four months or more; to be distributed, five-eighths to the fishermen, and three-eighths to the owners, as the law provides; said schooner having been accidentally lost while engaged in that business during the fishing season of eighteen hundred and thirty-five. Approved, June 12, 1838.
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