Chapter 207. for the examination and allowance of certain awards made by a board of claims to certain citizens of Jefferson County, Kentucky
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CHAP. 207.— An Act for the examination and allowance of certain awards made by a board of claims to certain citizens of Jefferson County, Kentucky.March 3, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Awards by a board of claims to certain citizens of Jefferson county, Ky. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the several persons in this act named the several sums mentioned herein, the same being in full for, and the receipt of the same to be taken and accepted in each case as a full and final discharge of, the several claims examined and allowed by a board of claims organized under Special Orders numbered One hundred and ten, Headquarters Fourteenth Army Corps, dated Louisville, Kentucky, July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five namely:
To R. II. Crump, three hundred dollars. To Mathew Meddis, one hundred and fifty dollars. To J. B. Parks, four hundred and thirty dollars. To P. S. Longest, four hundred dollars. To John Duggan, three hundred dollars. To Mary Leissing, eight hundred and ten dollars. To Paul Disher, sixty dollars. To Fred Barringer, six hundred and thirty-four dollars. To L. and Martin Stich, four hundred and thirty-nine dollars. To Thomas Stevens, seventy-seven dollars. To Isaac Everett, six hundred dollars.
To Christian Zann, five hundred dollars. To Theodore Meinert, one hundred and ninety-two dollars. To Henry F. Cooper, one hundred dollars. To John G. Barrett, six hundred and eight dollars. To Mrs. Emory Low. one hundred dollars. To William E. Glover, five hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents. To Andrew Zehnder, five hundred and fifty dollars. To Domini Zehnder, two hundred and eighty dollars. To Isaac L. Hyatt, assignee tor the award made to W. B. Belknap, one thousand dollars.
To Jose Zaun, one hundred and fifty dollars. *Provided*, That before any of the said amounts are paid the claim*Proviso*.Secretary of War to ascertain, etc., sums justly due, etc. of the parties herein named shall be referred to the Secretary of War to find and determine whether or not the United States received the benefit of the articles and supplies for which compensation was allowed by said board, whether the prices fixed were fair and just, and whether the several claimants were loyal to the United States during the late civil war, and he is authorized to ascertain and determine what sum, if 572 any, is justly due to each of said parties on account of the claims examinedReport of findings. and allowed by the said board, and herein included, and to report his findings to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the saidPayment. awards to be audited, and shall pay the several sums found to be due in the manner mentioned in the foregoing section to the person or persons to whom the same may be due as hereinbefore provided. Approved, March 3, 1893.