Chapter XCIII. for the Relief of the Heirs of Robert Fulton
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Chap. XCIII.— An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of Robert Fulton. Aug. 7, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, $76,300 to be paid in full of the claims of Robert Fulton. That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the heirs of Robert Fulton seventy-six thousand three hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full of the claims of the said Robert Fulton against the United States, due at the time of the death of the said Fulton, for inventing floating steam batteries, and superintending the construction of the steam frigate Fulton, for the detention of, and damages to, his steamboat Vesuvius, and for the great benefits conferred on the country by his improvements in the application of steam to navigation.
Approved, August 7, 1846.