Volume 6
Private Law 25–LXXIV
for the relief of Thomas Cushing.
Approved April 20, 1838
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Thomas Cushing.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the collector of the customs for the district of Boston
Allowance of bounty to fishing schooner.
and Charlestown, in the state of Massachusetts, be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Thomas Cushing, who was, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, owner of the fishing schooner “Germantown, of Boston,” of forty and six ninety-fifths tons burden, such sum as said vessel would have been entitled to for being engaged in the cod fishery more than four months in that season, if the same had returned into the port oi Boston, instead of the port of Ellsworth; which said sum the owner shall distribute according to law.
Approved, .