Chapter CXLV. for the Relief of Nathan Smith, Charles K
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Chap. CXLV.— An Act for the Relief of Nathan Smith, Charles K. Smith, and others. Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Collector of Stottington authorized to pay to owners of schr. Washington such allowance as they would have been entitled to had their schooner completed her term of fishing service. That the collector of the customs for the District of Stonington, in the State of Connecticut, is hereby authorized to pay to Nathan Smith, Charles K.
Smith, owners of the fishing-schooner Washington, of Stonington, and to the persons competing her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive had she completed her fishing term; the said schooner having been driven on shore in a gale, by which she was prevented from accomplishing the full term required by law to entitle her to the bounty. Approved, August 8, 1846.