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Public Law 38–CCIII
to compensate the Officers and Crew of the iron-dad Gunboat Essex for the Destruction of the rebel Dam Arkansas.
Approved July 1, 1864
Statutory text
An Act
to compensate the Officers and Crew of the iron-dad Gunboat Essex for the Destruction of the rebel Dam Arkansas.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
Appropriation to pay the officers, &c., of the Essex, the bounty for destroying the Arkansas.
the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay to the officers and crew of the ironclad gunboat Essex, for the destruction of the rebel ram Arkansas, die bounty providedTHIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 204, 205. 1864. by the
1862, Ch. 204, § 4.
Vol. xii. p. 606.
fourth section of the act entitled “An act. for the better government of the navy of the United States,” approved July seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.
Approved, .