Chapter 509. For the relief of the heirs of Aaron Van Camp and Virginias P
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CHAP. 509.— An Act For the relief of the heirs of Aaron Van Camp and Virginias P. Chapin. February 6, 1903.[[Private, No. 447](/us/pvtl/57/447).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the claim of Aaron VanAaron Van Camp and Virginius P. Chapin.Claim of heirs of, referred to Court of Claims. Camp and Virginius P. Chapin against the United States (Congressional case numbered one thousand and forty-nine), the findings of fact in which were transmitted to the House of Representatives by House Miscellaneous Document Numbered Eighty-one, Fifty-first Congress, second session, is hereby referred to the Court of Claims, to hear and determine the question of the liability of the United States for the losses found by said court, in its said sixth finding of fact, with jurisdiction to hear and determine the same upon the principles of law and equity and in compliance with the rules and regulations of said court.
And in the event the said court shall be of the opinion that the Judgment.United States are justly liable, under all the circumstances of the said case, for the losses and damages sustained by the said deceden ts by reason of the acts of their officers in the premises, the said court shall render judgment in favor of the claimants for the amount found to be duo by its sixth finding of fact in the said Congressional case numbered one thousand and forty-nine, as set forth in the report of the said court to the Speaker of the House of Representatives on January eighth, 1606*Proviso.*Limitation waived.Testimony to be ad milted.eighteen hundred and ninety-one: *Provided*, That no statute of limitations shall be pleaded in bar of the recovery of said claim: *And provided further*, in determining the question of the liability of the United States the said court shall consider the testimony submitted to it in the investigation of said Congressional case numbered one thou-sand and forty-nine, together with all affidavits and documents; also the reports of officers of the State and Treasury departments of the United States in the settlements of accounts of the officers of the United States in connection with the said claim.
Payment of judgment.And furthermore, that if the judgment shall be rendered against the United States for the amount found and fixed by said court in said sixth finding of fact, to wit, the sum of sixty thousand one hundred dollars, the same shall be paid, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of the said Aaron Van Camp, deceased, and the said Virginias P. Chapin, deceased, as their respective interests may appear, and the new action to be brought under the provisions of this Act shall be in the name of said legal representatives.
Approved, February 6, 1903.