Chapter 8. To refer the claim of the owners of the brig Tally-Ho to the Court of Claims
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CHAP. 8.— An Act To refer the claim of the owners of the brig Tally-Ho to the Court of Claims. January 9, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the claim of the legal Brig “Tally-Ho.” Claim for loss, etc., referred to Court of Claims.owners of the brig Tally-Ho, her cargo and freight, and of personal effects on board her, alleged to have been sunk by a collision with the United States steam vessel of war Pinta, on or about the third day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, be referred to the Court of Claims, to hear and determine the same to judgment, notwithstanding the lapse of time, with right of appeal as in other cases.
Whereas the legal owners of said brig, cargo, freight, and personal Use of evidence on file.effects, or some of them, did, on the twenty-ninth day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, file in said Court of Claims, in the case referred to said court by the Secretary of the Navy, and then numbered on the docket of said court departmental case numbered sixteen, their petition setting forth their losses by said collision; and whereas evidence has been taken upon said petition, both by said petitioners and by the United States, and said evidence has been filed in said court, the claim above referred to said court may be heard and determined by said court upon said petition already filed therein; and the said evidence already taken and filed by either party upon said petition may be used and referred to in said hearing and determination of said claim in all respects as if originally taken and filed for the purposes of the hearing and determination thereof provided for by this Act, with the right of Appeal.either party to appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Approved, January 9, 1897.