Chapter 430.
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CHAP. 430.— An act or the relief of the estate of J. J. Pulliam, deceased.March 2, 1889. Whereas under the provisions of the act of June sixteenth, eighteenPreamble. Vol. 22, p. 689. hundred and sixty-four, certain claims were allowed and reported to Congress by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department. in eighteen hundred and eighty-two, for payment, including the claim of J. J. Pulliam’s estate, for wood supplied to the Quarter-master’s Department of the United States Army; and Whereas there was a mistake in the amount that should have been reported in favor of said Pulliam’s estate, as appears by the report of the committee to whom said bill was referred, made before the passage thereof:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,J. J. Pulliam. That the proper ac-counting officers of the Treasury Department be. and they are hereby, Claim of estate of, to be re-examined.authorized and directed to re-examine and settle the claim of the estate of J. J. Pulliam, deceased, late of Fayette County, State of Tennessee, for wood taken by the United States forces during the late war, from one hundred and twenty-five acres of land located near the village of La Grange, in said State; and the Secretary of thePayment.
Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum that may be *Proviso*.found due said estate, first deducting any sum heretofore paid: *Provided*,Limit. That the amount shall not exceed four thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars. Approved, March 2, 1889.