Chapter CLXIX. authorizing the payment of bounty on certain fishing vessels lost at sea
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Chap. CLXIX.— An Act authorizing the payment of bounty on certain fishing vessels lost at sea.June 30, 1834. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the collector of the port of Boston and Collector of Boston and Charlestown, to pay to officers and crew of the Two Brothers, the bounty to which she would have been entitled. Charlestown be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the late owners and crew of the said Two Brothers, to be distributed according to law, the same sum of money that said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty or drawback, if she had in her last voyage, in which she was lost, complied with all the requirements of law necessary to secure such bounty; the said vessel being of the burden of one hundred and thirteen and twenty-nine ninety-fifths tons. 579TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 172, 175, 176. 1834. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the collector of the port of Frenchman’s Bay be, and he hereby is, authorized to pay to Daniel Kiff, the late owner, and to the crew of the fishing boat Juno, to be The Collector of Frenchman’s Bay to pay to the owner and crew of the boat Juno, the bounty, &c. distributed according to law, the same sum said vessel would have been entitled to, as a bounty or drawback, if she had not perished by the perils of the sea in her last voyage, and had arrived in port, having complied with all the requirements of law necessary to secure such bounty or drawback; the said boat being of the burden of fourteen and seventy-nine ninety-fifths tons.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the collector of the customs The Collector of Barnstable to pay the heirs of the owners and crew of the sch’r Emeline the bounty, &c. for the district of Barnstable, state of Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to the heirs at law, of the owners and crew of the schooner Emeline, which was lost at sea, together with the whole crew, before she had accomplished the time required by law to entitle her to the bounty or drawback she would have been entitled to have received, had she safely arrived in port, after having accomplished the full term required by law.
Approved, June 30, 1834.