United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/13th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 53
Chap. LIII.—An Act for the relief of Uriah Coolidge and James Burnham.
To be paid expenses incurred in behalf of wounded seamen.Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to Uriah Coolidge, and James Burnham, of the town of Portland, in the district of Maine, out of the fund “appropriated to the support and maintenance of wounded seamen on board private armed vessels,” such a sum as will compensate them for taking care of, and procuring medical aid for, Peter Charry, Thomas Robinson, John Hart, Thomas Bailey, Peter Ridley, and Joseph Sawyer, six seamen belonging to the crew of the private armed schooner Siro, who were wounded by an explosion of the arm-chest, during a cruise in the summer of the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, five of whom, when brought to land, to wit, Peter Charry, Thomas Robinson, John Hart, Thomas Bailey, and Peter Ridley, were placed under the care of the said Uriah Coolidge; and one, to wit, Joseph Sawyer, under the care of the said James Burnham, there being no marine hospital in the said town; also, that the secretary be authorized to allow for the said funeral charges of such said seamen as died of their wounds aforesaid; Provided however, That the above-mentioned allowance shall not exceed the accustomed rates of hospital charges in similar cases.
Approved, February 24, 1815.