Chapter 137. To carry out the findings of the Court of Claims in the case of Augustus P
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CHAP. 137.— An Act To carry out the findings of the Court of Claims in the case of Augustus P. Burditt. February 3, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Augustus P. Burditt.Payment to. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to Augustus P. Burditt, of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, surviving partner of the FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 137–141. 1897. 785 late firm of Burditt and Fisk, the sum of five thousand one hundred and thirty dollars, being for the services of the steamboat Mattie, owned by said firm of Burditt and Fisk, and used in the military service of the United States from the fifth day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to the thirty-first day of January, in said year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, both days inclusive, at the rate of one hundred and ninety dollars a day, as found by the Court of Claims in its finding of facts dated the ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety, House Miscellaneous Document Numbered Two hundred and thirty-six, Fifty-first Congress, first session.
Approved, February 3, 1897.