Chapter XLIV. for the Relief of Nott and Company
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CHAP. XLIV.— An Act for the Relief of Nott and Company. Feb. 22, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Attorney-General to examine claim of Nott and Company. That the Attorney-General be, and he is hereby, directed to examine the claim of Nott and Company, American merchants trading and doing business in China, against the Chinese government, for losses of coin sustained in eighteen hundred and fifty-seven by the capture and robbery of the vessel called the “Neva”;
Claim to be paid, if, &c.and that, if in his opinion the said claim ought to be paid, he is hereby authorized and instructed to order the same to be paid, with the rate of interest allowed on other claims from the time of such loss, out of any funds received from the Chinese government, under the treaty of eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, for the payment of losses sustained by American citizens ; and that the said amount be paid to the said Nott and Company, or the surviving copartner or copartners, or any person duly authorized to be their agent or attorney, from the fund now held by the Secretary of State.
Sec. 2. Decision of the Attorney-General to be final. *And be it further enacted, *That the decision of the said Attorney- General as to the right of said claimants to be paid, as to the amount to be paid, and as to the parties entitled to receive the same, shall be final and conclusive. Approved, February 22, 1869.