Chapter XXXVI. for the Relief of Alexander J
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Chap. XXXVI.— An Act for the Relief of Alexander J. Atocha.Feb. 14, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the court of claims be,Claim of Alexander J. Atocha to be examined by the court of claims. and the said court is hereby, directed to examine into the claims of Alexander J. Atocha against the government of Mexico for losses sus-596THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 36, 40, 44, 51. 1865.tained by him by reason of his expulsion from that republic in eighteen hundred and forty-five, and if they shall be of opinion that the said claim was a just one against Mexico when the treaty of eighteen hundred andVol. ix. p. 922. forty-eight was ratified, and was embraced by said treaty, they shall then fix and determine the amount of the same; and that the loss or damage so sustained being adjudicated and determined by said court, the same shall be paid to the said Alexander J.
Atocha, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided, however,* That the amount so to be paid shall in no event exceed the balance of the three and a quarter millions of dollars provided by the fifteenth article of the treaty ofVol. ix. p. 933. Guadalupe Hidalgo for the payment of claims of citizens of the United States against the government of Mexico, which still remains unapplied to that object. Approved, February 14, 1865.