Chapter 559. To refer the claim of Joseph W
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CHAP. 559.— An Act To refer the claim of Joseph W. Parish to the Secretary of the Treasury for examination and payment of any balance found due. February 17, 1903.[[Private, No. 469](/us/pvtl/57/469).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Joseph W. Parish.Claim of, to be examined by Secretary of the Treasury. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to make full and complete examination into the claim of Joseph W.
Parish against the United States for balance alleged to be due him by virtue of a contract made by J. W. Parish and Company with Henry Johnson, a medical store-keeper, acting on behalf of the United States, which contract bears date March fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and provides that said J. W. Parish and Company should furnish to the United States for the use of the Medical Department of the Army the whole amount of ice required to be consumed at Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee;
Saint Louis, Missouri, and Cairo, Illinois, during the remainder of the said year eighteen hundred and sixty-three; that the Secretary shall determine and ascertain the full amount which should have been paid said J. W. Parish and Company if the said contract had been carried out in full, without change or default made by either of the parties thereto, under the rule of the measure of damages laid down by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the United States 1613 against Behan (One hundred and tenth United States Reports, page three hundred and thirty-eight), and in accordance with the evidence in the case collected by the United States Court of Claims, and after determining the full amount thus due said J.
W. Parish and Company, under the said contract and rule of law aforesaid, to deduct therefrom all payments which have been made to said J. W. Parish and Company, or to said Joseph W. Parish, whether in pursuance of judgments of the court or direct appropriation by Congress, or otherwise, stating what balance, if any, is due under the rule and evidence prescribed herein, and pay the said balance to said Joseph W. Parish, the present owner of said claim; and sufficient money to pay such balance is herebyAppropriation for amount found due. appropriated out of any money in the Treasury which has not been otherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 17, 1903.