Chapter LXXI. authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Nathaniel Seavy and others
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Chap. LXXI.— An Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Nathaniel Seavy and others. March 3, 1817. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasuryDonation of $300. not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred dollars in equal proportions to Nathaniel Seavey, Richworth Mason, and Daniel Tobey, of the State of Massachusetts, their agent, or legal representatives; which sum of three hundred dollars is paid to them as an evidence entertained by Congress of their valor and good conduct, in having recaptured the schooner Pink, in the late war with Great Britain, and made prisoners of the prize crew of said schooner, consisting of three British seamen; which prisoners were delivered to the collector of Wiscasset, in the district of Maine; and also as compensation for the prisoners so taken.
Approved, March 3, 1817.