Volume 6
Private Law 25–CCXVIII
for the relief of Thomae Cushing.
Approved March 3, 1839
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Thomae Cushing.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow and cause to be paid to Thomas Cushing
Allowance of bounty to fishing schooner.
as managing owner of the fishing schooner Commerce, of Boston, and to the crew thereof, to be divided and distributed to and among them as the law in such cases provides, the bounty allowed to vessels engaged in the cod-fishery, the said schooner being of the burden of sixty-five tons, and employed four months and fourteen days in such fishery, actually at sea, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and having taken five hundred and fifteen quintals of fish in that time: to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .