SAN FRANCISCO.

[_Testimonial of National Gratitude._]

BY JOINT RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS TO THE RESCUERS OF THE PASSENGERS
OFFICERS AND MEN OF STEAMSHIP SAN FRANCISCO WRECKED DEC. (_December_)
1853. TESTIMONIAL OF NATIONAL GRATITUDE FOR HIS GALLANT CONDUCT.
America, personified as a female, seated, and with the eagle, fasces,
and shield at her left, crowns with a wreath of laurel a sailor, who
is kneeling before her; to the right, the United States capitol; to
the left, a ship at anchor. PAQUET. F. (_fecit_).

Thirty-nine stars; a man and a woman on a raft at sea; a ship coming
to their rescue. On the raft, PAQUET. F. (_fecit_). Exergue: JULY 26
1866--An anchor and a branch of laurel.[120]

[Footnote 120: See INTRODUCTION, page ix.]

As this medal was not voted by Congress until 1866, it is placed here
according to the chronological order adopted.

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ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. (p. 412)

_Resolutions of Congress Voting Medals to Captains Creighton, Low, and
Stouffer._

_Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled_: SECTION 1. That
the President of the United States be requested to procure three
valuable gold medals with suitable devices, one to be presented
to Captain Creighton, of the ship Three Bells, of Glasgow; one to
Captain Low, of the bark Kilby, of Boston; and one to Captain
Stouffer, of the ship Antar(c)tic, as testimonials of national
gratitude for their gallant conduct in rescuing about five
hundred Americans from the wreck of the steamship San Francisco;
and that the cost of the same be paid for out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SECTION 2. _And be it further resolved_, That the sum of seven
thousand five hundred dollars each is hereby appropriated, out of
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the
above named captains respectively, as a reward of their humanity
and heroism in the rescue of the survivors of the said wreck, and
in case either of the said captains may have died, then the
amount hereby appropriated shall be paid to the widow of said
deceased captain respectively; if no widow surviving, then to the
respective child or children of such deceased captain; and in the
event of there being n