Chapter CCXXXI. to carry into Effect the Decree of the District Court of the United States for the southern District of New York in the Case of the English Schooner Sibyl and her Cargo
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CHAP. CCXXXI.— An Act to carry into Effect the Decree of the District Court of the United States for the southern District of New York in the Case of the English Schooner Sibyl and her Cargo.July 8, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of thePayment of decree of district court in the case of the English schooner Sibyl and her cargo. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to make the proper payments to carry into effect the decree of the district court of the United States for the southern district of New York, bearing date the second day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, in the case of the English schooner Sibyl and her cargo, illegally seized by a cruiser of the United States; such payments to be made as follows, viz.:
To the several persons named in such decree, or their legal representatives, the sums therein awarded to them, respectively, with interest from the date of the decree. Approved, July 8, 1870.