Chapter 458.
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CHAP. 458.— AN ACT authorizing compensation to members of Company B Fourteenth Infantry, for private property destroyed by fire on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad.August 7, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Compensation to Company B, Fourteenth Infantry, for losses, etc., by fire on Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, etc. That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to cause to be ascertained the actual value of the private property belonging to the officers and men of Company B.
Fourteenth Infantry, as well as the Company property belonging to said company and the camp and garrison equipage and stores belonging to the United States, that were destroyed by fire on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad on the fourteenth day of August eighteen hundred and sixty nine, and certify such values when so ascertained to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, who shall thereupon proceed to state an account in favor of the persons to whom any money may be so ascertained to be due, and the Treasurer shall pay the same to them out of any money in the Treasury not *Provisos*.otherwise appropriated: *Provided*, That the agregate sum so paid by virtue of this act, for private property, shall not exceed the sum of five thousand seven hundred and twenty three dollars and twenty nine cents, whatever may be the certified value of said property: *Provided*, that the accounting officers of the Treasury shall charge the amount so paid to said officers and soldiers to the said railroad company, and retain the same out of any money due or that may hereafter be due from the United States to said railroad company.
Approved, August 7, 1882.