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Volume 6

Private Law 25–CCXXXIII

for the relief of the widow or legal representatives of John Tilden.

Approved March 3, 1839

Statutory text

An Act

for the relief of the widow or legal representatives of John Tilden.

Be it enacted, &c.,

That the limitation contained in the third section

Limitation in 3d section of act of April 20, 1816, ch. 65, of two years for presentment of claims, extended, &c.

of the act entitled “An act respecting the late officers and crew of the sloop of war Wasp,” approved April twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixteen, of two years, for the presentment of claims under and in virtue thereof, so far forth as the same may relate to, or operate upon, the widow or representatives of John Tilden, or of the crew of said sloop of war Wasp, be, and the same hereby is, suspended, and extended for the term of two years from and after the passage of this act; and within that time the claim of said widow or representatives of said John Tilden, by virtue of said act, may be presented, and in all respects proceeded with as though no such limitation had been passed; and the sum which may thereupon be allowed, shall be paid out of the navy pension fund.

Approved, .

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