Chapter CDL. to provide for the Examination and Payment of the Claim of Albert Grant
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CHAP. CDL.— An Act to provide for the Examination and Payment of the Claim of Albert Grant. June 10, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of War be,Claim of Albert Grant to be examined, &c. and he hereby is, authorized and directed to examine the claim of Albert Grant, assignee to A. Grant and Company, for damages sustained by said A. Grant and Company in the erection of a fire-proof store-house at Schuylkill arsenal, in the city of Philadelphia, in the years eighteen hundred and sixty-seven and eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, under a contract by them entered into with the United States, the alleged amount being forty-seven thousand dollars; and if on examination the Secretary shall be of opinion that said claim, or any part thereof, is just and equitable, he shall cause the same to to be paid to this claimant or his legal representatives: *Provided,* That the amount so allowed shall not exceedProviso. the sum of forty-seven thousand dollars, and that it shall be in full discharge of this claim.
Sec. 2. That a sufficient sum to pay the amount adjudged by theAppropriation. Secretary of War to this claimant, by virtue of this act, is hereby appropriated. Approved, June 10, 1872.