Volume 21
Private Law 46–83
to admit free of duty two watches presented to Joseph Upton and G. W. Curtis for rescuing the crew and passengers of the steamship American.
Approved February 26, 1881
Statutory text
An Act
to admit free of duty two watches presented to Joseph Upton and G. W. Curtis for rescuing the crew and passengers of the steamship American.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Américain Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to admit free of duties and customs charges two watches, now in the custody of the collector of customs at Boston, Massachusetts, presented to Captain Joseph Upton, master of the American bark Emma F. Harriman, and to G. W. Curtis, his first officer, respectively, for services performed by them in rescuing the passengers and crew of the British steamship American, which foundered at sea.
Approved, February 26, 1881.