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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · March 3, 1839 · Chapter CL

Chapter CL. *for the relief of Benjamin Hewitt.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby,Claim to be examined, &c. authorized to examine and decide upon the claim of Benjamin Hewitt, agreeably to the provisions of the resolution of the tenth of February, eighteen

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Chap. CL.— An Act *for the relief of Benjamin Hewitt.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby,Claim to be examined, &c. authorized to examine and decide upon the claim of Benjamin Hewitt, agreeably to the provisions of the resolution of the tenth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, empowering the Secretary of the Navy to settle certain contracts and relinquish certain forfeitures, and to extend to him the full benefit of said resolution, if he finds and adjudges his case to be within the principle thereof. Approved, March 3, 1839.
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