Volume 35
Private Law 60–345
For the relief of James W. Sears.
Approved March 4, 1909
Statutory text
An Act
For the relief of James W. Sears.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the
James W. Sears.
Payment to.
Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to James W. Sears (now residing at Albion, in the State of Michigan) the sum of throe thousand dollars, being in full for the payment of the canal boat. P. G. Dennison, owned by said Sears, but which was destroyed by fire at the port of New York in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the said boat at that, time being loaded with Government stores, having been impressed and taken by the officers of the United States for the use of the Government. The sum of
Appropriation.
three thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to pay the said James W. Sears for the loss of his property out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 4, 1909.