Chapter 123. To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to compromise and settle a certain suit at law resulting from the forfeiting of the contract of the Commercial Coal Company with the District of Columbia in 1916
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CHAP. 123.— An Act To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to compromise and settle a certain suit at law resulting from the forfeiting of the contract of the Commercial Coal Company with the District of Columbia in 1916. February 12, 1931.[[S. 4307](/us/bill/71/s4307).][[Private, No. 311](/us/pvtl/71/311).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the CommissionersDistrict of Columbia.
Suit against Globe Indemnity Company resulting from forfeiture of coal contract by Commercial Coal Company to be settled. of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to discontinue the prosecution of the claim and suit now pending in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and entitled “ Suit numbered 73035,” to recover the sum of $19,800, this being the amount of the bond accompanying contract numbered 6132, entered into by the Globe Indemnity Company, a corporation of the State of New York: *Provided*, That the Globe Indemnity*Provisos*.Amount in compromise.
Company pay to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia a sum not less than $7,000 in compromise and settlement of said claim: *Provided further*, That the said sum shall be covered intoDivision of award. the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the revenues of the District of Columbia in equal parts. Approved, February 12, 1931.