Chapter XXXV. for the relief of Comfort Sands and others
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Chap. XXXV.— An Act for the relief of Comfort Sands and others. March 2, 1799. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the accounting officers of the treasury be, Examination and settlement of the claim of Comfort Sands.and they are hereby, authorized and empowered, upon application of the parties, to examine and decide upon the validity of a certain award or report, made on the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, by Isaac Roosevelt, William Malcom, Elbridge Gerry, and Henry Remsen, (four of the referees nominated for the purpose,) between the United States and Comfort Sands and others, his copartners, (contractors for furnishing supplies to the troops during the late war,) and that in making their decision upon the said award or report, the said officers of the treasury shall be governed by principles similar to those which would prevail in a controversy concerning it at law: and if, in the opinion of the accounting officers aforesaid, the said award or report ought to be binding and obligatory against the United States, then, and in such case, but not otherwise, the said Comfort Sands and others, his said copartners, shall be entitled to have their said claim against the United States, as on the said award, allowed and settled at the treasury, in the usual manner, and shall be paid the amount of the claim so to be allowed, out of any moneys which may be in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided,* That if, on examination by the officers of the treasury, it shall be found that the said Comfort Sands, or either of his copartners, are indebted to the United States, they shall charge the amount in which they may be so indebted, against the sums which may be allowed on account of said award.
Approved, March 2, 1799. 6 6 1 1799 1800 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, on Monday, the second day of December,* 1799, *and ended the fourteenth day of May,* 1800. John Adams, President; Thomas Jefferson, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Samuel Livermore, President of the Senate pro tempore on the twenty-fourth day of December, 1799; Uriah Tracy, President of the Senate pro tempore on the fourteenth day of May, 1800;
Theodore Sedgwick, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I.