Chapter 163. For the relief of the trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas
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CHAP. 163.— An Act For the relief of the trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas. January 23, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Trustees Presbyterian Church of Dardanelle, Yell County, Ark.Payment to authorized. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be investigated by the Quartermaster’s Department of the United States Army the circumstances, character, and extent of the damages by United States troops during the late war to the church building and grounds of the Presbyterian Church of Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas, and the actual value of the material taken from the building and grounds, and to find and award and to certify to the Secretary of the Treasury what amount, if any. is equitably due to the trustees of said church from the United States as the reasonable value of the material taken and used; and the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to said trustees, or their successors, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount, if any, so found to be due from the United States, and not to exceed two thousand dollars; and the acceptance by said trustees of any sum paid under the provisions hereof shall be in full satisfaction of all claim, of every name and nature, for occupation and damage, or in any manner arising or growing out of the same.
Approved, January 23, 1901.