Chapter 1349. For the relief of John Hornick
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CHAP. 1349.— An Act For the relief of John Hornick. June 30, 1902.[[Private, No. 1133](/us/pvtl/57/1133).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, John Hornick.Removal of disabilities caused by defective naturalization. That John Hornick, having served in the infantry service of the United States for nearly three years during the war of the rebellion, and having been honorably dis-charged from such service, be, and he is hereby, relieved from any disability now or heretofore existing, since the date of his said dis-charge, by reason of any defective naturalization, or by reason of not having been duly naturalized under the laws of the United States; and he is hereby authorized to prosecute, in the Court of Claims of the United States, Indian depredation claim numbered in said court ten thousand three hundred and eighty-nine and entitled “John Hornick, Fred T.
Evans, and Richard Dunn versus The United States and the Sioux Indians,” in which cause judgment was rendered by said court on the fourteenth day of January, anno Domini nineteen hundred and one; and the said court is hereby authorized and directed to reinstate the said cause, so far as the same pertains to the claim of the said John Hornick, and upon the facts, as found and returned by said court, is authorized to enter judgment in said cause in favor of the said John Hornick for such sum as he would have been entitled to recover in said action, with such costs as he may be entitled to recover under existing law and the rules of said court, the same as if he had been a citizen of the United States at the time said depredation was committed.
Approved, June 30, 1902.