Chapter 142. Making appropriation for payment of certain claims in accordance with, findings of the Court of Claims, reported under the provisions of the Acts approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and commonly known as the Bowman and the Tuck

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CHAP. 142.— An Act Making appropriation for payment of certain claims in accordance with, findings of the Court of Claims, reported under the provisions of the Acts approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and commonly known as the Bowman and the Tucker Acts, and under the provisions of section numbered one hundred and fifty-one of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, commonly known as the Judicial Code.

February 27, 1917.[[S. 1878](/us/bill/64/s/1878).][[Private, No. 205](/us/pvtl/64/205).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Omnibus claims Act. Payment of claims reported by Court of Claims. Vol. 22, p. 485; Vol. 24, p. 507; Vol. 36, p. 1138. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to claimants in this Act named the several sums appropriated herein, the same being in full for and the receipt of the same to be taken and accepted in each case as a full and final release and discharge of their respective claims, namely:

To Anastacio de Baca, administrator of Francisco de Baca, deceased, of Santa Ana County, $1,325. 1496 To Edward H. Bergmann, of New Mexico, $1,200. To W. J. Goodwin, of New Mexico, formerly of Woodruff County, Arkansas, $2,980. To Prairie County, Arkansas, $13,200. Alabama. alabama. To the legal representatives of Isaiah Attaway, deceased, of Macon County, $275. To Jane P. Paulk, of Bullock County, $635. To the trustees of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Pleasant Springs, $350.

Georgia. georgia. To the trustees of the First Baptist Church of Rome, $870. Kentucky. kentucky. To R. W. Harris, administrator of James P. Harris, of Floyd County, $330. To the vestry of Ascension Protestant Episcopal Church, of Mount Sterling, $825. To the fiscal court of Oldham County, $1,100. To the treasurer of the Christian Church of Stanford, $420. Louisiana. louisiana. To Madeleine Lement, administratrix of Pierre Lement, of Saint Landry Parish, $295. To Kate P. McWaters, Margaret McWaters Bell, James H.

McWaters, B. P. McWaters, and Moses McWaters, junior, in equal shares, heirs of Moses McWaters, of West Feliciana Parish, $950. Maryland. maryland. To the heirs of William H. Bradshaw, of Frederick County, $137.50. Mississippi. mississippi. To the trustees of the Protestant Orphan Asylum at Natchez, $3,500. Missouri. missouri. To William W. Green, of Camden County, $270. North Carolina. north carolina. To Sarah F. Trenwith, executrix of C. F. Simpson, deceased, of Craven County, $815.

To the deacons of the Baptist Church of Beaufort, $250. Ohio. ohio. To the trustees of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Gallipolis, $250. South Carolina. south carolina. To John Duncan, surviving partner of the firm of Duncan and Son, of Charleston, $8,450. To the trustees of Beaverdam Baptist Church, of Marlboro County, $1,600. To the trustees of Saint Johns Baptist Church, of Bamberg County, $275. 1497 tennessee. Tennessee. To Lulu H. Doyle and Anna V. Berry, sole heirs of Patrick H. and Margaret E.

Watkins, deceased, of Hamilton County, $333.34. To the trustees of the Hobson Methodist Church, of Davidson County, $1,800. To the treasurer of the corporation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga, $500. To the trustees of the Christian Church of Columbia, $375. To the trustees of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Murfreesboro, $900. To the trustees of the McKendree Methodist Episcopal Church South, of Nashville, $1,200. To the trustees of Liberty Springs Missionary Baptist Church, of Stewart County, $475. virginia.

Virginia. To Lucy E. Johnson and John A. Johnson, sole heirs of Armistead M. Johnson, deceased, of Loudoun County, $784. To the session of the Presbyterian Church of Greenwood, $100. To the trustees of the Christian Church of Suffolk, $540. west virginia. West Virginia. To the legal representatives of Josiah M. Davisson, deceased, of Taylor County, $720. To the trustees of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, of Bunker Hill, $300. Sec. 2. That the foregoing several sums be, and they are hereby, Appropriation. appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes of this Act.

Sec. 3. That in case of the death of any claimant, or the death Legal representatives. or discharge of the executor or administrator of any claimant herein named, payment of such claim shall be made to the legal representatives: *Provisos*. Bond of administrator. *Provided*, That where a claimant is dead the administrator, executor, or legal representative shall file a certified copy of his bond, which bond must be at least equal in amount to the sum hereby appropriated: *Provided further*, That in all cases where the original Heir, etc., instead of assignee in bankruptcy. claimants were adjudicated bankrupts payment shall be made to the legal representatives or next of kin instead of to the assignees in bankruptcy: *And provided further*, That wherever under this Act Substitution in case of death of executor, etc. it is provided that a payment be made to an executor or an administrator, whether original or ancillary or de bonis non, and such executor or administrator is dead or no longer holds his office, payment shall be made to the successor therein, his title to hold such office being established to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury; and wherever under this Act it is provided that a payment Payment to corporations. be made to a corporation or quasi corporation and such corporation or quasi corporation has been merged in or consolidated with another corporation or quasi corporation, payment shall be made to the corporation or quasi corporation with which the consolidation or merger has been made.

Approved, February 27, 1917.