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

Chapter CLXXV. *for the relief of Joseph R

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Chap. CLXXV.— An Act *for the relief of Joseph R. Folsom and the owners and crew of the schooner Galaxy, of Bucksport, in the state of Maine.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the collector of the customs for the districtAllowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea. of Penobscot, in the state of Maine, is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Joseph R. Folsom, the owners, master, and crew of the fishing 778 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 176, 177, 178. 1839. schooner Galaxy, of Bucksport, to be distributed according to law, the same said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty, or drawback, if she had been actually at sea during the whole time required by law to be entitled to said bounty, she having been lost before she had accomplished her full term required by law.
Approved, March 3, 1839.
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