Chapter CCXIX. to carry into Effect the Decree of the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana in the Case of the British Schooner Flying Scud and her Cargo
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CHAP. CCXIX.— An Act to carry into Effect the Decree of the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana in the Case of the British Schooner Flying Scud and her Cargo.July 7, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the TreasuryPayment of decree of district court in favor of Bernardo Caymari and Jules Aldige. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to Bernardo Caymari, a subject of Spain, or his legal representatives, the sum of forty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars and seventy-five cents, and to Jules Aldige, a subject of France, or his legal representatives, the sum of twelve thousand five hundred and twenty-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents, with interest in both cases from the date of a decree of the district court of the United States for the district of Louisiana, pronounced on the third day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, by which these sums, due on account of the illegal capture of their property by a cruiser of the United States, were respectively awarded to these claimants: *Provided, however,* That, out of any money herebyProviso. appropriated for said Bernardo Caymari, the Secretary of the Treasury shall retain such sums as will satisfy any judgments or other legal claims or demands which the United States may have against said Caymari.
Approved, July 7, 1870.