Chapter 349. relative to the Chinese indemnity fund
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CHAP. 349.— An Act relative to the Chinese indemnity fund.March 3, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Chinese indemnity fund.President to convert into coin and return to Chinese Government. That the President be. and be is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the residue of the indemnity received from China, which is now in the custody of the Secretary of State and is known and designated in the accounts and reports of the Department of State as the Chinese indemnity fund, to be converted into coin, and the sum of five hundred and eighty-three thousand lour Balance covered into Treasury.hundred dollars and ninety cents be returned to the Chinese Government, and the balance of said fund, if any, be covered into the.
Treasury *Proviso*, Charles E. Hill to be first paid for steamer Keorgeor.of the United States: *Provided*, That before the payment to China the Secretary of State shall pay from said fund to the executors of Charles E, Hill the sum of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, upon receipt of a release in full for all claims upon China tor the use and loss of the steamer Keorgeor, in or about the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three. Approved, March 3d, 1885.