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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · May 2, 1840 · Chapter XV

Chapter XV. *for the relief of George Willis.*May 2, 1840. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and requiredPayment for loss of a pilot boat. to pay to George Willis the sum of eighty dollars, for the loss of a pilot-boat while, piloting a revenue cutter over Ocracoke bar, out

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Chap. XV.— An Act *for the relief of George Willis.*May 2, 1840. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and requiredPayment for loss of a pilot boat. to pay to George Willis the sum of eighty dollars, for the loss of a pilot-boat while, piloting a revenue cutter over Ocracoke bar, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 2, 1840.
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