New York Laws
Article 10 - Wrecks
135 - Claim for Salvage.

§ 135. Claim for salvage. Every officer to whom any order duly made,
for the delivery of the wrecked property, or its proceeds, shall be
directed, shall present to the claimant exhibiting such order a written
statement of the claims for salvage and expenses on such property and
proceeds. If the claimant shall refuse to allow such claims, the amount
of such salvage and expenses shall be adjusted in the manner hereinafter
provided, and, after the payment or tender of the payment of such
salvage and expenses, as agreed to or adjusted, the officer, in whose
custody such property or proceeds shall be, shall deliver or pay the
same, according to the terms of the order directed to him.

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