Chapter XCVII. *making Appropriations for the Payment of the Awards made by the Commissioners appointed under and by virtue of an Act of Congress entitled “An Act for the Belief of Persons for Damages sustained by Reason of the Depredations and Injuries by certain Bands of Sioux Indians.” Approved, February sixtee
524 words·~2 min read·
/statutes-at-large/vol-13/chapter-xcvii-417941·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
CHAP. XCVII.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Payment of the Awards made by the Commissioners appointed under and by virtue of an Act of Congress entitled “An Act for the Belief of Persons for Damages sustained by Reason of the Depredations and Injuries by certain Bands of Sioux Indians.” Approved, February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty three.*May 28, 1864.1863, ch. S7.Vol. xii. p. 652. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sum of nine hundred THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 97, 98. 1864.93Appropriations to pay awards of damages done by the Sioux Indians.and twenty-eight thousand four hundred and eleven dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the several amounts awarded by the commission appointed under and by virtue of an act of congress entitled “An act for the relief of persons for damages sustained by reason of the depredations and injuries by certain bands of Sioux Indians,” approved February sixteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to the several persons, firms, estates, and corporations, respectively, to whom such amounts were awarded by said commissioners, except the following persons, estates, and firms to whom awards were made as aforesaid, to wit:
Antoine Roberts, J. C. Toberer, Gilbault and Company, W. L. Sumner, G. L. Mendelsohn, D. C. Marvin, Joseph Popp, B. Heinbach, W. W. Pendergast, Louis Theobald, J. and C. M. Dailey, B. H. Randall, Louis Robert, W. H. Forbes, estate of S. B. Garvie, deceased, A. Vajen and Brother, T. I. Pierce, estate of Francis Labathe, deceased, S. A. Hooper, estate of James C. Dickenson, deceased, Henry Apple, Theodore Crone, Charles Jacobs, F. Immel, H. C. Cooper, H. D. Cunningham, Joseph Descoteau, and Henry Behnke, which last claim is numbered 366 on the books of said commissioners.
Sec. 2, *And be it further enacted,* Appropriation to pay awards to persons, &c., specialty names.That for the payment of so much of said awards made by said commissioners to the persons, firms, and estates specifically named in the first section of this aet, as the Secretary of the Interior shall upon examination find to be due to them respectively, under said act approved February sixteen, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the further sum of two hundred and forty-one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated outSecretary of Interior to pay claimants or their attorneys. of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the said several claimants, or to their attorneys heretofore or hereafter duly authorized, other than those claimants specifically mimed in the first section of this act, the several amounts as awarded by said commissioners, and also to pay the several sums he may find due, not exceeding the amounts respectively awarded by said commissioners to the said persons, firms, and estates so specifically named.
Approved, May 28, 1864.