Chapter 480.
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CHAP. 480.— AN ACT to refer the claim of the captors of the ram Albermarle to the Court of Claims.August 8, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Claims of captors of ram Albermarle referred to Court of Claims. That the claims of the captors of the ram Albemarle, which was captured and destroyed October twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be, and the same hereby are, referred to the Court of Claims, with jurisdiction and authority to hear and determine the same, and all defenses thereto which are or may be open to the United States, and to render judgment thereon, with the right of appeal as in other cases; and if said court shall find that either or any of said captors has not or have not received his or their full and just share of the prize money awarded for the capture of said ram Albemarle, according to the proportions provided in the prize laws in force at the time of said capture, and that he or they are entitled to claim and recover the same, the said court shall render judgment in favor of such captor or captors, respectively, or his or their legal representatives, for such sum or sums as shall in addition to the amount already paid make the share of such captor or captors, respectively, equal to his or their respective share or shares of said prize money, according to the provisions of the prize laws in force at the time of said *Proviso*.capture: *Provided*, That no suit shall be brought under the provisions of this act after one year from the date of its passage.
Sec. 2. Judgment, how paid. That any judgment rendered by the Court of Claims under the provisions of the first section of this act shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury out of any money in the Treasury applicable to the payment of prize to captors; and if there shall not be money applicable for that purpose in the Treasury, or sufficient therefor, then the same, or any part thereof for which prize money in the Treasury is insufficient, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, August 8, 1882.