Chapter 179. to pay for clerical services and extraordinary expenses, under the seventh section of the act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, in the Pawnee land-district in Kansas
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CHAP. 179.— An Act to pay for clerical services and extraordinary expenses, under the seventh section of the act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, in the Pawnee land-district in Kansas.June 10, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Wm. Brindle.Allowance to.1856, ch. 129;11 Stat., 91. That, in accordance with the seventh section of the act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and the settlement of the account of William Brindle, receiver of public moneys and disbursing-agent in the Pawnee laud-district in Kansas, under and in accordance with said act, and the report by the Secretary of the Interior to Congress on January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, as required by said act, the sum of four thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the said William Brindle, late receiver, and so forth, to bear date from January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, being the date of settlement, and report of said account tinder said act.
Sec. 2. That the suit now pending in the district court of the UnitedSuit againstWm Brindle. States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, at May sessions, eighteen hundred and seventy seven, number four, brought by the United States against William Brindle, shall not be withdrawn, discontinued, nor abandoned by the United States without the written request or consent in writing of the said William Brindle, filed of record therein; and in the trial of said cause the said court shall hear and determine all disputes and differences between the United States and the said William Brindle in reference to his various accounts as receiver and acting disbursing-agent of public money in the Pawnee laud-district in Kansas, and also in relation to his accounts as special receiver of Indian trust-moneys received and expended under the Indian treaties of May sixth and May thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, as well under said Indian treaties as under 10 Stat., 1048.10 Stat., 1082.the laws of the United States; and the said William Brindle, in the trial of said cause, shall be permitted and be entitled to make defense and claim set-off in bis favor in said court, if said court shall determine him to be entitled thereto, with the same effect as if said suit were commenced by An individual againstSet-off. the said William Brindle, and said set off shall not be barred by any statute of limitations.
And should the said court, in the said trial, determine that there is a balance due to the said William Brindle upon said accounts, the court shall certify the amount so found to be due to him to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, for payment, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, reserving, nevertheless, the right of appeal to either party from the judgment of the said court. Approved, June 10, 1878.