United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 1

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4107074United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Eighth Congress, First Session, Chapter 1United States Congress


Jan. 22, 1844.
[Obsolete.]

Chapter I.An Act to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, for the relief and protection of American seamen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Relief of American seamen. That the sum of forty thousand five hundred dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury for the relief and protection of American seamen, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, in pursuance of the act supplementary to the act concerning consuls and vice-consuls and for the further protection of American seamen,1803, ch. 9. passed the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and three.

Approved, January 22, 1844.