Chapter 148. To execute the findings of the Court of Claims in the matter of the claim of John J
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CHAP. 148.— An Act To execute the findings of the Court of Claims in the matter of the claim of John J. Shipman against the United States. May 1, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, John J. Shipman.Payment to.That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to John J. Shipman, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventeen thousand eight hundred and eleven dollars and ninety-six cents, the same being the amount found by the Court of Claims to be due to the said John J.
Shipman from the United States for stone furnished and delivered by the said Shipman to the United States and used by it in the construction of a lock on the Big Sandy River near Louisa, Kentucky, the said findings of the Court of Claims having been made in a proceeding and trial in said court authorized by resolution of the Senate of the sixteenth day of January, anno Domini eighteen Vol. 22, p, 485.hundred and eighty-nine, transmitting said claim to the Court of Claims under the provisions of an Act approved the third day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-three (twenty-second volume United States Vol. 24, p. 505.Statutes, four hundred and eighty-five), and an Act approved the third day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-seven (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page five hundred and five), to be instituted in said court against the United States.
Approved, May 1, 1896.