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Volume 6

Private Law 23–LXXXVI

for the relief of Philip Bessom.

Approved June 26, 1834

Statutory text

An Act

for the relief of Philip Bessom.

Be it enacted, &c.,

That there be allowed and paid to Philip Bessom, of Marblehead, in the state of Massachusetts, the sum of two thousand

Payment for bringing seamen to the U.S.

three hundred dollars, to indemnify him for the expense of bringing from Bayonne to the United States, forty-six American seamen, by direction of the American vice-consul or commercial agent at Bordeaux, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.

Approved, .

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