Chapter XIV. for the Relief of Nicholas M
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CHAP. XIV.— An Act for the Relief of Nicholas M. Page, Executor of Samuel Miller, of Campbell County, Virginia.Dec. 23, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the sum of forty-oneAppropriation to reimburse Nicholas M. Page, executor of Samuel Miller, for property wrongly confiscated and paid into the United States treasury. thousand three hundred and nine dollars and forty cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in satisfaction of the claim of Nicholas M.
Page, executor of Samuel Miller, of Campbell county, Virginia, for reimbursement of that sum paid into the treasury of the United States, the said sum having been paid under a decree of the district court of the district of Indiana, confiscating one hundred and nine thousand dollars in the five per centum bonds of said State, belonging to said Samuel Miller, which decree was afterwards reversed and set aside by the circuit court of the United States: *Provided, however,* That before such payment shall be made to said executor, the State bonds which were the subject of such decree of confiscation shall be deposited with the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, subject to such disposition as the legislature of the State of Indiana may see fit to make of the same; which said State bonds are described as follows, viz.:
No. 512, amount twelve thousand dollars; No. 699, amount four thousand dollars; No. 715, amount four thousand dollars; No. 1328, amount nine thousand dollars; No. 1519, amount two thousand dollars; No. 1540, amount three thousand dollars; No. 1604, amount five thousand dollars; No. 1663, amount four thousand dollars; No. 1708, amount three thousand dollars; No. 2007, amount four thousand dollars; No. 53, amount sixteen thousand dollars; No. 277, amount twenty-two thousand dollars;
No. 354, amount thirteen thousand dollars; No. 419, amount three thousand dollars; No. 1015, amount five thousand dollars. Approved, December 23, 1870.