Chapter 270. To execute the findings of the Court of Claims m the matter of William B
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CHAP. 270.— An Act To execute the findings of the Court of Claims m the matter of William B. Isaacs and Company. February 20, 1897. *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of theWilliam B. Isaacs and Company.Payment to. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to William B. Isaacs and Company, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of sixteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven dollars, the same being the amount found by the Court of Claims to be the proportionate part belonging, when taken by the United States, to the Bank of Virginia of certain gold coin taken possession of by the United States on or about the twenty-third day of August, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and which coin has ever since been, and now is, held by the United States, and to which moneys, by the findings of said court, the said William B.
Isaacs and Company are now, in law and justice, entitled as assignee, the said findings of the Court of Claims having been made in a proceeding and trial in said court authorized by the joint resolution ofVol. 24, p. 644. Congress of the third day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty seven (twenty-fourth volume United States Statutes, page six hundred and forty-four), to be instituted in said court against the United States. Approved, February 20, 1897.