Chapter CXXXI. for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers and seamen who were lost in the United States’ schooner, the Sylph
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Chap. CXXXI.— An Act for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers and seamen who were lost in the United States’ schooner, the Sylph.March 2, 1833. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the widows, if any such there be, and in A sum equal to six months pay allowed. case there be no widow, the child or children, and if there be no child, then the parents or parent, and, if there be no parent, then the brothers and sisters, of the officers and seamen who were in the service of the United States, and lost in the schooner Sylph, shall be entitled to, and receive, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to six months’ pay of their respective deceased relatives aforesaid, in addition to the pay due to the said deceased on the fifteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, to which day the arrears of pay due the deceased shall be allowed and paid by the accounting officers of the navy department.
Approved, March 2, 1833.