Chapter 432.
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CHAP. 432.— An act for the relief of the heirs of John H. Newman, deceased.March 2, 1889. Whereas, it appears of record that at its December term, eighteenPreamble. hundred and seventy-four, the Court of Claims in the case of John H. Newman versus the United States, numbered thirty-one hundred and sixty-two, rendered a judgment in favor of the said Newman for the proceeds of fifty bales of cotton, valued at one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-five cents per bale, when under the 1311 proof the court adjudged that the claimant was entitled to the proceeds of two hundred and thirty bales:
Therefore. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the SecretaryJohn H. Newman. Payment to heirs of. of the Treasury be. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the legal representatives of John H. Newman, deceased, late of the county of Warren, in the State of Mississippi, the sum of thirty-two thousand six hundred and seventy-nine dollars and twenty cents; balance due on account of captured cotton, as shown by the opinion of the court in rendering said judgment; and that said amount be paid out of the proceeds of captured and abandoned property now in the Treasury: *Provided*, That a greater amount of money shall not*Proviso*. be paid in satisfaction of this claim than the amount received andTo receive no more than proceeds of cot-ton. paid into the treasury as the net proceeds of the sale of the cotton alleged to have been taken.
Approved, March 2, 1889.