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

Chapter CLI. *for the relief of Spencer C

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Chap. CLI.— An Act *for the relief of Spencer C. Gist.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the proper accounting officers of the treasuryAllowed for services as an acting lieutenant. be authorized to settle and adjust the account of Spencer C. Gist, a midshipman in the navy of the United States, for his services as an acting lieutenant on board the frigate Guerriere, Captain Thompson, in the Pacific ocean, from the tenth of March eighteen hundred and thirty, to the twenty-eighth December eighteen hundred and thirty-one; and to allow him the extra pay and emoluments to which he may be entitled, over and above the amount already received by him as midshipman and acting sailing-master of said ship; and the amount so found due to the [said] Spencer C.
Gist shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1839.
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