o child or children of said deceased
captain surviving, then the amount hereby appropriated shall be
paid first, to the father, or if the father be not living, then
to the mother of such deceased captain respectively.

SECTION 3. _And be it further resolved_, That there shall be paid
to each mate of the three above-named vessels the sum of five
hundred dollars, and to each man and boy the sum of one hundred
dollars, and in case of the death of the respective mate or
mates, or men or boys, that the said respective sums shall be
paid in the same way and under the same conditions as the payment
is to be made in case of the death of the respective captains.

Approved July 26th, 1866.

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_Major Wyse to the Adjutant-General of the Army._

To Fort Wood
COLONEL S. COOPER, New York Harbor, January 14th, 1854.
Adjutant-General, Washington, D. C.

Colonel: I have the honor to enclose the above[121] informal
report, for the information of the proper authorities, with the
following remark: We were wrecked about 7 A.M. of the 24th of
December, 1853 (Saturday), the sea sweeping overboard Brevet
Colonel Washington, Brevet Major Taylor, Brevet Captain Field,
Lieutenant Smith, and about 120 men. We were much disabled and
leaking a great deal, mostly under our guards, which were (p. 413)
all broken up. On the 28th of December, 1853, we put on
board the bark Kilby, bound for Boston, Colonel Gates, Major
Merchant, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Burke, Doctors Saterlee and
Wirtz, Captain Judd, Captain Gardner, Lieutenant Fremont,
Lieutenant Loeser and Lieutenant Van Voast, with all the ladies
and their children, and about fifty men. Lieutenants William A.
Winder, Charles Winder, J. G. Chandler and myself, with the rest
of the men remained on board the wreck.

I continued the disembarkation until about 8 P.M. the same day,
when the weather forced us to stop, and that night we parted with
the bark in a gale. On Friday night, the 30th of December, 1853,
we fell in with the English ship "Three Bells," Captain
Creighton, who after finding our condition stuck by us _most
nobly_, until the sea calmed sufficiently to take our men off,
which was on Tuesday morning the 3d of January, 1854.