Chapter 62.
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CHAP. 62.— An act to extend the duration of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, and for other purposes.June 3, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Court of commissioners of Alabama Claims. 22 Stat., 98. That the existence of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, reestablished by the act entitled “An act reestablishing the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, and for the distribution of the unappropriated moneys of the Geneva award”, approved June fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be, and the same is hereby, continued and extended to the thirty-first day ofExistence of court extended to Dec. 31, 1885.
December, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, with the same effect, and no other, as if said last-named day had been named in the said act for the termination of the powers of said court; and said act is hereby continued in force during the period of extension hereby authorized. Sec. 2. That the powers of the clerk of said court are hereby extendedClerk; powers of, etc. for an additional period, not to exceed four mouths from and after the termination of the existence of said court, for the purpose of closing up 34 the business of his office, and deposit ng the records, documents, and all other papers of the court or its officers in the office of the.
Secretary Certain disbursements to be trade under the Secretary of State. Claims.of State, as provided in said act and the act therein referred to; and all disbursements made by said clerk during this additional period shall be under the direction of the Secretary of State. Sec. 3. That the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims shall proceed with all convenient dispatch to the final adjudication of all First class.claims of the first class as designated in the fifth section of the aforesaid act approved June fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; and as soon as the said court shall be satisfied that the aggregate of all the judgments of the first class, with interest added at four per centum from the time the loss occurred to the thirty-first of March, eighteen hundred and seventy seven, will not exceed the unappropriated amount of the List of judgments to be reported to Secretary of State; also to Secretary of Treasury.
Payments to be made out of unexpended balance of Geneva award.Geneva award remaining in the Treasury alter the deduction of all lawful expenses, the said court shall report a list of the several judgments of the first class then rendered, to the Secretary of State, who shall thereupon transmit the same, or a copy thereof, to the Secretary of the Treasury; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall, out of the unexpended balance of said award, without unnecessary delay, proceed to pay the said judgments of the first class so reported and transmitted, with interest as aforesaid, upon such notice and in such manner as he shall prescribe.
And the said court shall from time to time thereafter report such other judgments of the first class, if any, as may he rendered, to the Secretary of State, to be by him transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, and paid in the same manner and upon like notice as herein-before provided, until the whole of said judgments of the first class shall Appropriation.be paid. And so much money as may be necessary to pay said judgments of the first class, with interest thereon as aforesaid, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury received from said award not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, June 3, 1884.