Chapter 474.
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CHAP. 474.— An act for the relief of Saint Joseph Commercial College of Saint Joseph, Missouri.March 2, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Saint Joseph Commercial College. Claim of, to be investigated. That the Secretary of War be. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be investigated by the Quartermaster’s Department of the United States Army the circumstances, character, and extent of the alleged occupation by the United States military authorities, for Government purposes, during the late war, of the college buildings and grounds of Saint Joseph Commercial College, of Saint Joseph, Missouri, and the actual value of the use and occupation of the same, and to find and award, and to certify to the Secretary of the Treasury what amount, if any, is equitably due to the trustees of said college from the United States as the reasonable value of such use and occupation; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,Payment of amount found due. authorized and directed to pay to said trustees, or their successors, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount, if any, so found to be due from the United States; and the acceptance by said trustees of any sum paid under the provisions hereof shall be in full satisfaction of all claim, of every name and nature, for said occupation, or in any manner arising or growing out of the same.
Approved, March 2, 1889.