Chapter 597. To pay certain judgments against John C
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CHAP. 597.— An Act To pay certain judgments against John C. Bates and Jonathan A. Yeckley, captain and first lieutenant in the United States Army, for acts done by them under orders of their superior officers. May 29, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the John C. Bates and Jonathan A. Yeckley. Payment authorized of certain judgments against. Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to pay, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a certain judgment against Captain John C.
Bates and Lieutenant Jonathan A. Yeckley, United States Army, as defendants in an action brought against them by W. N. Belmont Clark and W. Ward Bill, as plaintiffs, for acts done by said defendants in compliance with orders of their superior officers; said judgment having been rendered in the third judicial district court of Dakota Territory and affirmed upon writ of error to the Supreme Court of the United States, amounting to two thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents, and costs in the court below to sixteen dollars and fifty-eight cents, and costs in the Supreme Court to twenty-six dollars and sixty-two cents.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is likewise directed to pay the two several judgments in favor of W. Ward Bill and W. N. Belmont Clark, respectively, against the aforesaid defendant, Captain John C. Bates, United States Army, arising out of the same transaction, for the sum pf nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and eighty-three cents, and sixteen dollars and fifty-eight cents costs in each case; said judgments having been rendered by the third judicial district court of Dakota Territory, at the same time and place as the aforesaid judgment affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States, no writ of error having been filed in said judgments, the same questions being involved as in the aforesaid judgment appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, with interest upon all of said judgments according to law.
Approved, May 29, 1900.