Chapter 348. for the relief of the estate of C
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CHAP. 348.— An Act for the relief of the estate of C. M. Briggs, deceased.June 4, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,C. M. Briggs.Court of Claims to hear claim of. That the Court of Claims is hereby given, subject to the proviso hereinafter mentioned, like jurisdiction to hear and determine the claim of the legal representatives of C. M. Briggs, deceased, for the proceeds of four hundred and fifty-five bales of cotton, now in the Treasury of the United States, alleged to have been owned, in whole or in part, by said Briggs, as is given to said court by the acts of March twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, upon petition to be filed in said court at any time within two years from the passage of this act, any statute of l imitations to the country notwithstanding: *Provided, however*, That unless the said court*Provisos*. shall, on a preliminary inquiry, find that said Briggs was in fact loyal to the United States Government, and that the assignment toLoyalty. him hereinafter mentioned was bona fide, the court shall not have jurisdiction of the case, and the same shall, without further proceedings, be dismissed: *And provided further*, That if the court shall find that, the alleged assignment from one Morehead to said Briggs, of dateAssignment.
April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, under which said Briggs claimed said cotton, was intended only as security to said Briggs for indebtedness, and against contingent liabilities assumed by him for said Morehead, judgment shall be rendered for such portion of the proceeds of said cotton as will satisfy the debts and claims of said Briggs, to secure which said assignment was given: *Provided*, said judgment shall not be paid out of the general fund in the TreasuryPayment. arising from the sale of captured and abandoned property, but shall be paid out of the special fund charged to and accounted for by Capt.
G. L. Fort. Assistant Quartermaster at Memphis, arising from the sale of the two thousand two hundred and nine bales of cotton, received by him, with which claimants cotton was intermingled, said claimant to receive only the proportion which his cotton bears to the net proceeds accounted for by said Fort. Approved, June 4, 1888.