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Private Law 16–XX
for the relief of Lieutenant Washington Seawell.
Approved February 17, 1836
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Lieutenant Washington Seawell.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized
To be credited with money lost.
and directed to credit Lieutenant Washington Seawell, any sum of money he may prove to the satisfaction of said Secretary, he had in his possession that belonged to the United States, and which he lost, without his fault, by the explosion of the steamboat Lioness, on Red river, on the nineteenth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; not to exceed, in all, the sum of seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and seventy-eight cents.
Approved, .