Chapter LXXV. to extend the Jurisdiction of the Court of Claims
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CHAP. LXXV.— An Act to extend the Jurisdiction of the Court of Claims.May 9, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theCourt of Claims to hear and determine certain claims. United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Court of Claims shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the claim of any paymaster, quartermaster, commissary of subsistence, or other disbursing officer of the United States, or of his administrators or executors, for relief from responsibility on account of losses by capture or otherwise, while in the line of his duty, of government funds, vouchers, records, and papers in his charge, and for which such officer was and is held responsible: *Provided,* That an appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court, as in otherAppeal. cases.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That whenever said court shall haveDecree and its effect. ascertained the facts of any such loss to have been without fault or neglect on the part of any such officer, it shall make a decree, setting forth the amount thereof, upon which the proper accounting officers of the treasury shall allow to such officer the amount so decreed as a credit in the settlement of his accounts. Approved, May 9, 1866.