Volume 12
Private Law 36–XIII
for the Relief of Samuel R. Franklin.
Approved January 23, 1861
Statutory text
An Act
for the Relief of Samuel R. Franklin.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the proper accounting officers
Lieut. Samuel R. Franklin to be allowed pay of purser.
of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and instructed to allow to Lieutenant Samuel R. Franklin, United States navy, in the settlement of his accounts, the difference between the pay he received as lieutenant, and the pay a purser would have received on board the United States sloop-of-war Falmouth, during the period in which he discharged the duties of purser on board said vessel: Provided, The same shall not exceed the sum of five hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixty-three cents.
Approved, .