Chapter XLV. to amend an Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of Alexander I
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CHAP. XLV.— An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of Alexander I. Atocha,” approved fourteenth February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.April 5, 1870.1865, ch. 36.Vol. xiii. p. 595. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Alexander I. Atocha shallAlexander I. Atocha may use certain evidence in the prosecution of his claim.Vol. ix. p. 933. be, and is hereby, authorized, in the prosecution of his claim referred to the court of claims by the act to which this is an amendment, to use such portions of the evidence taken in pursuance of the rules and regulations of the commission established under the fifteenth section of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and laid before said commission, as consists of the evidence of persons since deceased; and the government, in defendingThe government may do the same. against said claim, shall have like rights.
And such evidence shall be received by the court, so far as the subject-matter thereof is competent testimony; and the court shall give it such weight as in their judgmentEffect of such testimony. under all the circumstances it ought to have. Approved, April 5, 1870.