Chapter CVI. allowing pay to certain persons made prisoners with the revenue cutter “Surveyor.” April 27, 1816. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to settle the accounts for pay of the boatswain, gunner, cook, and ten mariners, captured on board of the reven
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Chap. CVI.— An Act allowing pay to certain persons made prisoners with the revenue cutter “Surveyor.” April 27, 1816. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to settle the accounts for pay of the boatswain, gunner, cook, and ten mariners, captured on board of the revenue cutter Surveyor, during the late war with Great Britain, up to the period of their release and return from captivity, and to pay the amount to them, or their legal representatives, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to settle with Samuel Traverse, late master of the cutter Surveyor, and pay him up to the seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.
Approved, April 27, 1816.