Chapter X. for the relief of Edmund Briggs
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Chap. X.— An Act for the relief of Edmund Briggs. Feb. 10, 1807. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the collector for the district of Newport be, Collector to pay him or his agent the amount of bounty found due to him.and he hereby is directed to pay to Edmund Briggs, owner of the schooner Phebe, or his agent, the amount of bounty, or allowance arising on a fishing voyage, which was made in the said vessel, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, upon satisfactory proof being exhibited to the said collector, that the said schooner was employed during the four months of the fishing season.
Sec. 2. Repeal of a section of the law relating to Robert Patton, &c.Act of March 3, 1805, ch. 46. *And be it further enacted, *That so much of the act, intituled “An act for the relief of Robert Patton, and others,” passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and five, as is contained in the second section thereof, be, and the same hereby is repealed. Approved, February 10, 1807.