Chapter 233.
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CHAP. 233.— AN ACT for the relief of the sureties, and so forth, of Samuel M. Reynolds, late additional paymaster of United States volunteers.March 3, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,S. M. Reynolds.Case referred to Court of Claims. That the claim of James L, Reynolds and A. Wilhelm surviving administrator de bonis non of Robert W. Coleman, deceased, sureties upon the official bond of Major Samuel M.
Reynolds, late additional paymaster of United States Volunteers, for the refunding by the government of the amount of the judgment recovered against them in the United States district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, ou or about June first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and paid by them, and the claim of said Major Samuel M. Reynolds for release from liability on his official bond as paymaster of United States volunteers, to the amount of said judgment, on account of the loss by an alleged larceny from him of government funds on or about December twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, be, and the same are hereby, referred to the Court of Claims, with jurisdiction to hear and determine said claims, if presented within six months from the passage of this act; and the same shall be adjudged upon their merits ; and said claimants and the United States shall have the right to use as competent evidence before the said court, any records and official reports on file in the War or Treasury Department in relation to said loss, and claims for allowance arising therefrom, and any additional testimony relevant to the same ; and if said court shall be satisfied from the evidence that it is just and equitable, it shall render judgment in favor of said claimants upon the said respective claims: *Provided,* That no such judgment in favor of said sureties and their representative shall include costs or exceed the amount of the money lost by said Samuel M.
Reynolds, with the interest paid thereon by said sureties. Approved, March 3, 1879. FORTY FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 234,235,236,237. 1879.