Chapter 2870. For the relief of Franklin Patterson
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CHAP. 2870.— An Act For the relief of Franklin Patterson. March 2, 1907.[[H. R. 3462](/us/bill/34/hr/3462).][[Private, No. 2629](/us/pvt/34/2629).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Franklin Patterson.Payment to. That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to pay to Franklin Patterson, of Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, the sum of one thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars, said payment when made to be in full satisfaction of the claim of said Franklin Patterson, an applying creditor, in full satisfaction of all claim against the United States of America, under a certain attachment issued on the fourth day of September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-one, out of the inferior court of common pleas of the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, at the suit of Eusebius W.
Arrow smith, junior, plaintiff, against The Pneumatic Dynamite Gun Company, defendant, and levied upon the said Pneumatic Dynamite Gun Company plant, on the United States reservation at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, which plant was afterwards purchased by the United States of America while still subject to the lien of said attachment; said claim, although prior to the title of the United States of America to said property, being still unpaid, although the plaintiff has been settled with and said Franklin Patterson and Frederick Parker, the duly appointed auditor in said attachment, having been enjoined and prevented from selling said plant on the ground that the same was a necessary part of the defenses of the city of New York and that there was no appropriation for the payment of said claim, but said plant having been afterwards, to wit, in the year nineteen hundred and two. condemned by the United States of America as no longer useful, and having been sold by the United States of America to a private individual or corporation for the sum of twenty thousand dollars or thereabouts which has been paid into the Treasury of the United States, and the said United States of America having prevented the said Franklin Patterson from making sale of said plant so attached, although the said injunction from selling the same was dis-solved by the United States circuit court for the district of New Jersey, on the twenty-first day of July, anno Domini nineteen hundred and two, and the United States of America having allowed the purchaser of said goods and chattels so attached to remove and dispose of the same without first paying and satisfying the said claim of said Franklin Patterson.
Approved, March 2, 1907.