Chapter 339. For the relief Mrs
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CHAP. 339.— An Act For the relief Mrs. M. E. West. March 4, 1909. [[H. R. 3674](/us/bill/60/hr/3674).] [[Private, No. 227](/us/pvtl/60/227).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the claim of one thousandMartha E. West.Claim referred to Court of Claims. five hundred dollars of Martha E. West, for lumber composing a sawmill and taken in eighteen hundred and sixty-five by United States troops in the Sioux Indian war in Minnesota and used for the construction of a stable, is hereby referred for adjudication on principles upon which claims were paid by the commission under the ActVol. 12, p. 652. of Congress of February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to the Court of Claims, which may regard as competent evidence any affidavits or papers relating to the claim and on file in the departments or in the courts, and give such weight thereto as is proper.
Any judgment rendered by the court for the claimant shall be paid toPayment of judgment. her or to her personal representative out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 4, 1909.