Volume 6
Private Law 27–XCIX
for the relief of Josiah Holmes.
Approved July 27, 1842
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Josiah Holmes.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the collector of customs for the district of
Allowance of bounty to fishing schooner.
New Bedford, in the state of Massachusetts, be, and hereby is, required to pay to Josiah Holmes, agent and principal owner of the sloop Lydia, of Rochester, in said district, of seventy-five and fifty-seven ninety-fifths tons burden, or to his legal representatives, such sum as said vessel would be entitled to receive as bounty for having been engaged more than four months in the cod-fisheries, during the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-nine; said bounty having been refused by the collector of said district, on the ground that the agreement between Holmes and the fishermen, although in all respects faithfully executed, had not, by inadvertence or mistake, been endorsed or countersigned by said Holmes; which sum shall be distributed according to law.
Approved, .