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23rd Congress · 1833–1835
H.R. 261
A Bill For the relief of Stevens Smith and the heirs of Patrick McKown and crew of the fishing schooner Rising States…
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Latest action: Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harper, of New Hampshire, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the followin… · January 31, 1834 Understand the measure
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Introduced
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harper, of New Hampshire, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Stevens Smith and the heirs of Patrick McKown and crew of the fishing schooner Rising States, of Bath bay, in the State of Maine.
Recorded January 31, 1834, as the clerk wrote it
Official title
A Bill For the relief of Stevens Smith and the heirs of Patrick McKown and crew of the fishing schooner Rising States, of Bath bay, in the State of Maine.
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