Chapter 1348. For the relief of Joseph H
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CHAP. 1348.— An Act For the relief of Joseph H. Penny, John W. Penny, Thomas Penny, and Harvey Penny, surviving partners of Penny and Sons. June 30, 1902.[[Private, No. 1132](/us/pvtl/57/1132).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Joseph H. Penny, John w. Penny, Thomas Penny, and Harvey Penny.Relief of. That the Court of Claims is hereby given jurisdiction to rehear and reconsider and determine the motion filed in said court by the claimants on the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for a rehearing and new trial of the case of Penny and Sons versus the United States and Sioux Indians, numbered in said court as Indian depredations numbered forty-six hundred and thirty-four; and to that end the bar of the statute of limitations against said motion is hereby removed, and the said court is given jurisdiction to rehear and redetermine said motion in the same manner and with like effect as if said motion had been filed and presented within the time authorized by law and the rules of said court; and if said motion shall be sustained by said court, then, and in that event, the court shall proceed to retry and readjudicate the matter involved in said suit the same as if no former j udgment had been entered therein.
Approved, June 30, 1902.