Chapter CXXXI. for the Relief of the Owner and Crew of the Schooner Tancred
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Chap. CXXXI.— An Act for the Relief of the Owner and Crew of the Schooner Tancred. Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Collector at Marblehead to pay owner and crew of schr. Tancred such sum as they would have been entitled to had said vessel been engaged more than four months in cod fishery.Proviso. That the collector of the customs for the District of Marblehead, in the State of Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay Glover Broughton, owner of the schooner Tancred, and to the persons composing her crew, or their legal representatives, such sum as said vessel would have been entitled to receive had she been engaged more than four months in the cod fisheries during the season of eighteen hundred and forty-four, and which was prevented by the loss of said vessel, which sum shall be distributed according to law: *Provided*, It shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that the provisions of law relating to fishing bounties, other than such as require the actual employment of the vessel at sea for a term or terms of time, shall have been complied with.
Approved, August 8, 1846.