New York Consolidated Laws, Navigation Law - NAV § 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.