Chapter LIV. *for the relief of Benjamin J
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Chap. LIV.— An Act *for the relief of Benjamin J. Totten.*March 1, 1843. *Be it enacted, &c*., That there be allowed and paid to Benjamin J. Totten,To be paid for services as an acting lieutenant in the navy. of the United States navy, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the difference of compensation between a sailingmaster and a lieutenant in the navy, for the period during which said Totten acted as lieutenant on board of the United States schooner Dolphin, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, by the temporary appointment of J.
C. Long, commander; said Totten furnishing to the Navy Department satisfactory evidence of the fact. Approved, March 1, 1843.