Chapter 39. For the relief of the legal representatives of Napoleon B
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CHAP. 39.— An Act For the relief of the legal representatives of Napoleon B. Giddings. February 8, 1917.[[H. R. 8057](/us/bill/64/hr/8057).][[Private, No. 165](/us/pl/64/165).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Napoleon B. Giddings. Investigation of claim for property taken from. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be investigated the circumstances of the alleged taking from Napoleon B.
Giddings, in January, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1471 and depositing with A. B. Dyer, lieutenant of ordnance, United States Army, by order of Sterling Price, colonel commanding the Army in New Mexico at that time, of one hundred and forty kegs of gunpowder, and to ascertain and determine the reasonable market value of such powder at that time and place, not to exceed the value of $1,950, and whether the same or any part thereof was ever returned or delivered back to said Giddings, and the final disposition of such powder; and if the same, or any part thereof, was never returned to or delivered back to said Giddings, and in the opinion of such Secretary the circumstances of the case render the United States liable for the value of such powder, then to certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount of the reasonable market value at that time and place of the powder so never returned or delivered back to said Giddings; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized Payment to legal representatives of. and directed to cause to be paid to the legal representatives of said Napoleon B.
Giddings the said amount so certified by the Secretary of War to be the reasonable market value of such powder as aforesaid. Approved, February 8, 1917.