Chapter 162. giving the Court of Claims jurisdiction of the claims on account of property of the Chesapeake Female College, possessed and used by the United States military authorities
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CHAP. 162.— An Act giving the Court of Claims jurisdiction of the claims on account of property of the Chesapeake Female College, possessed and used by the United States military authorities.February 12, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Chesapeake Female College. That the claims of the Chesapeake Female College, of Virginia, for the use and occupation of their property, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and thence to the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, by the military authorities of the United States, as well as all claims for personal property taken, appropriated and receipted for in behalf of the Claim referred to Court of Claims.United States, be, and they are hereby, referred to the Court of Claims, and such adjudication shall be made thereon by said court as law and justice may seem to require; and the statutes of limitation shall not apply to these claims.
Received by the President January 31, 1891. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States tor his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]