Chapter 95. For the relief of the heirs of Thomas J
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CHAP. 95.— An Act For the relief of the heirs of Thomas J. Miller. February 6, 1909. [[H. R. 13319](/us/bill/60/hr/13319).] [[Private, No. 113](/us/pvtl/60/113).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of WarThomas J. Miller.Relief of heirs of. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to examine into and ascertain the loss and damage sustained by Thomas J. Miller by the seizure and sinking of his ferryboat on the Columbia River by the armed forces of the United States, for the purpose of preventing the same being used by the hostile Indians during the late Bannock war in the Territory of Washington, in or about the month of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight; and the sum of five hundred dollars,Appropriation. or as much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of War to adjust and the accounting officers of the Treasury to pay to the heirs of the said Thomas J.
Miller the amount of said loss and damage, not to exceed five hundred dollars, as allowed under the authority of this Act. Approved, February 6, 1909.