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Private Law 25–LXXV
for the relief of Winthrop Sears and others.
Approved April 20, 1838
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Winthrop Sears and others.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the collector at the port of Barnstable, in
Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.
the state of Massachusetts, be authorized and directed to pay to Winthrop Sears, and the late owners, officers, and crew of the fishing schooner “Laban,” of eighty-seven and fourteen ninety-fifth tons burden, which sailed from Yarmouth, in said state, on the twenty-sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, on a fishing voyage to the Grand Banks, and which was stranded on Sable Island about the sixth day of June of the same year, by which said schooner and all the salt on board were lost, the same she would be entitled to receive by law, as a bounty or drawback, for having been employed five months in the cod fisheries, and using foreign salt on which the duties had been paid; which said sum shall be distributed as the law respecting bounties provides.
Approved, .