Chapter CDVI. referring the Claim of the Heirs and legal Representatives of Colonel Francis Vigo, deceased, to the Court of Claims for Adjustment
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CHAP. CDVI.— An Act referring the Claim of the Heirs and legal Representatives of Colonel Francis Vigo, deceased, to the Court of Claims for Adjustment. June 8, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the claim of the heirs andClaim of Col. Francis Vigo to be referred to the Court of Caims. legal representatives of Colonel Francis Vigo, deceased, late of Terre Haute, Indiana, for money and supplies furnished the troops under command of General George Rogers Clark, in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-eight, during the revolutionary war, be, and the same is hereby, referred, along with all the papers and official documents belonging thereto, to the Court of Claims, with full jurisdiction to adjust and settle the same; and, in making such adjustment and settlement, the said court shall be governed by the rules and regulations heretofore adopted by the United States in the settlement of like cases, giving proper consideration to official acts, if any have heretofore been had in connection with this claim, and without regard to the statutes of limitations.
Approved, June 8, 1872.