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Volume 6

Private Law 22–CXVIII

supplemental to an act entitled “An act for the relief of Alexander Claxton,” passed on the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.

Approved March 2, 1833

Statutory text

An Act

supplemental to an act entitled “An act for the relief of Alexander Claxton,” passed on the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.

Be it enacted, &c.,

That the proper accounting officers of the treasury

Further allowance for his expenses in the case of the ship James Mitchell.

department be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to allow to Alexander Claxton, a captain in the navy of the United States, in the settlement of his account, for his reasonable expenses incurred in and about the prosecution of his claim for salvage against the English merchant ship the James Mitchell, in the superior court of the district of East Florida, in addition to the sum provided by the act to which this is a supplement, the further sum of six hundred and thirty-seven dollars; and that the amount be paid to the said Alexander Claxton, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, .

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