Chapter CLI. for the Relief of Gregory Thomas and others
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Chap. CLI.— An Act for the Relief of Gregory Thomas and others. Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Persons attached to the pilot-boat Washington,, to be paid $800 for injuries sustained by the boat by a collision with the U. S. steamer Colonel Harney. That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to pay, or cause to be paid, to Gregory Thomas, of the city of New York, for himself and the other owners and pilots who were attached to the pilot-boat Washington, of that port, on the first October, eighteen hundred and forty-four, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight hundred dollars, being three hundred dollars for expenses incurred by them for repairs, and five hundred dollars for detention occasioned by injuries to their said pilot boat, by a collision with the United States Steamer Colonel Harney, on the ocean, on the night of the first October, eighteen hundred and forty-four.
Approved, August 8, 1846.