Chapter 145. For the relief of the estate of John R
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CHAP. 145.— An Act For the relief of the estate of John R. Bigelow. April 27, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, John R. Bigelow.Payment to administratrix.That, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Eunice P. Bigelow, administratrix of the estate of John R. Bigelow, deceased, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and eighty-four dollars and sixty-six cents, as rent of a tract of land, with the buildings thereon, known as Clermont, in Fairfax County, Virginia, three miles from Alexandria, as found and set forth by the Court of Claims in its findings of fact reported in House Miscellaneous Document Numbered Nineteen, Fifty-second Congress, second session, and that this sum be paid to her in full satisfaction of all claims against the United States on account of the purchase of the Clermont 720 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 145, 146, 148, 149. 1896.property in July, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, by John R. Bigelow and Westel Willoughby, and its subsequent occupation by the United States. Received by the President, April 15, 1896. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for 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.]