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 740 Trrua xL1v.—THE PUBLIC PROPERTY. 11 June, 1864. G- torv, be seized, arrested, attached, or held for the security or satisfaction ll? *’· 13- P· 122- of any claim made against such property, the Secretary of ihe Treasury, in his discretion, may direct the Solicitor of the Treasury to cause a stipulation to be entered into by the proper district attorney for the discharge of such property from such seizure, arrest, attachment, or proceeding, to the effect that upon such discharge, the person asserting the claim against such property shall become entitled to all the bcneiits of this and the following section. Nothing herein contained shall, however, be considered as recognizing or conceding any right to enforce by seizure, arrest, attachment, or any judicial process, any claim against any property of the United States, or against any propenty held, owned, or employed by the United States, or by any Department thereof, for any public use, or as waiving any objection to any proceeding instituted to enforce any such claim. Payment. Sino. 3754. In all cases where a stipulation is entered into under the pre- HCT? ceding section, and, in consequence thereof, the property is discharged, ` and final judgmentis afterward given in the court of last resort to which the Secretary of the Treasury may deem proper to cause such proceedings to be carried, affirming the claim for the security or satisfaction of which such proceedings have been instituted, and the right of the person asserting the same to enforce it against such property by means of such proceedings, notwithstanding the claims of the United States thereto, such final judgment shall be deemed, to all intents and purposes, a full and iinal determination of the rights of such person, and shall entitle such erson, as against the United States, to such rights as he would have had in case possession of such property had not been changed. Whenever such claim is for the payment ofmoney, and the same is by such judgment found to be due, the presentation of a duly authenticated copy of the record of such judgment and proceedings shall be sufficient evidence to the roper accounting officers for the allowance thereof; and the same shall tliereupon be allowed and paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. The amount so to be allowed and paid shall not, however, exceed the value of the interest of the United States in the property in question. Preservation, Sec. 3755. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to makc such Sale, &¤·- of 8h3H- contracts and provisions as he ma.y deem for the interest of the Govern- ‘l"“"d p“’P""Y;_/ ment, for the preservation, sale, or collection of any property, or the pro- 2l June: 1870, ceeds thereof, which may have been wrecked, abandoned, or become R92k31U- 7°» *-16: derelict, being within the jurisdiction of the United States. and which !"' ought to come to the United States, or of any moneys, dues, and other interests lately in the possession of or due to the so-called Confederate States, or their agents, and now belonging to the United States, which are now withheld or retained by any person, corporation, or municipality whatever, and which ought to have come into the possession and custody of, or been collected or received by, the United States; and in such contracts to allow such compensation to any person giving information thereof, or who shall actually preserve, collect, surrender, or pay 0VOI' the same, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem just and reasonable. No costs or claim shall, however, become chargeable to the United States in so obtaining, preserving, collecting, receiving, or making available property, debts, dues, or interests, which shall not be paid from such moneys as shall be realized and received from the property so collected, under each specific agreement.