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Chap. 77: For the relief of J. R. Eggleston, of Hinds County, Mississippi. Chapter 77 30 Stat. 1509 1899-01-30 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 55 3 30 private chap. 77.— An Act For the relief of J. R. Eggleston, of Hinds County, Mississippi. January 30, 1899. Whereas J. R. Eggleston, of Hinds County, Mississippi, was one ofJ.
R. Eggleston.Preamble. the lien tenants on board of the United States steamer Wyandotte, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, when said steamer captured the bark William, a slaver, loaded with seven hundred slaves, captured, on the coast of Cuba; and 1510 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Chs. 77, 85, 90. 1899. Whereas the said bark William was condemned as lawful prize in the admiralty court of Key West, Florida, and it was adjudged by said admiralty court that said Lieutenant Eggleston was entitled to three hundred and twenty dollars as prize money; and Whereas the said amount of money is now in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Lieutenant Eggleston; and Whereas the First Auditor of the Treasury declines to pay over to said Lieutenant Eggleston the money adjudged by the admiralty court to be his lawful prize money on account of said capture and said adjudgment in admiralty; and Whereas this matter was, by the First Auditor of the Treasury, submitted to the then Attorney-General of the United States, who on the seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, gave his opinion that said money could not be paid to said Lieutenant Eggleston except it be authorized by an act of Congress:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment to, of prize money.States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to said J. R. Eggleston, lieutenant as aforesaid, the sum of three hundred and twenty dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, being by the court in admiralty adjudged to be the amount due to said Eggleston, lieutenant as aforesaid, as lawful prize.
Sec. 2. Effect.That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Received by the President, January 18, 1899. [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.]
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