Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 590.
(Report No. 751.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
July 12, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Hunt, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the
following bill:
A BILL
To compensate and reimburse the owners and crew of the
whaling ship Chandler Price the losses and expenses incurred
in ransoming the crew of the ship Columbia.

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11 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and
he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the owners
of the whaling ship Chandler Price the sum of two
thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-
five cents, (of which amount the sum of six hundred and
thirty-seven dollars shall be received by said owners in
trust for, and paid over to, the officers and crew of said
ship, as wages,) for the expenses and damages sustained
by them through the generous conduct of Captain John

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18 H. Pease, master of said ship, in ransoming the officers
and crew of the American ship Columbia from the
savages inhabiting Sydenham island, in the Pacific, and
furnishing clothing and subsistence to said officers and
crew after their release; and the said sum is hereby ap-
propriated, out of any money in the treasury not other-
wise appropriated.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the owners of the whaling ship Chandler Price the sum of two thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty- five cents, (of which amount the sum of six hundred and thirty-seven dollars shall be received by said owners in trust for, and paid over to, the officers and crew of said ship, as wages,) for the expenses and damages sustained by them through the generous conduct of Captain John
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12 13 14 15 16 17 18	H. Pease, master of said ship, in ransoming the officers and crew of the American ship Columbia from the savages inhabiting Sydenham island, in the Pacific, and furnishing clothing and subsistence to said officers and crew after their release; and the said sum is hereby ap- propriated, out of any money in the treasury not other- wise appropriated.