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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 346-318. 1888. 1075 CHAP. 346.——An act for the relief of John C. Weaver. June 4· l8'6`8· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary fghn QhXg*"€’· of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay ym ' to John C. Weaver, of Dennison, Clark County, Illinois, the sum of sin hundred dollars, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated as compensation for a substitute furnished the Union Army during the war. Approved, June 4, 1888. CHAP. 347.-An act for the relief of the heirs of A. Gates Lee and heirs of B. P. ·l¤¤*> 4· 1888- Lee, deceased. """""` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary P{8<g¤*~S Mc md B- of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ay `rayiimtwuensos, to the heirs of A. Gates Lee, deceased, of McCracken county, lgentucky, and the heirs of B. P. Lee, deceased, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred and seventv—five dollars, for use an occupation of their mill property by United States troops during the late war. Approved, June 4. 1888. CHAP. 348.-Au act for the relief of the estate of C. M. Briggs, deceased. J¤¤¤ 4. 1888- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Court of &$B¤jsg¤m Claims is hereby given, subject to the proviso hereinafter mentioned, hear claiin ur. ms m like jurisdiction to hear and determine the claim of the legal re resentatives of C. M. Briggs, deceased, for the proceeds of four hundred and fifty-five bales of cotton, now in the Treasury of the United States, alleged to have been owned, in whole or in part, by said Briggs, as is "ven to said court by the acts of March twelfth, eighteen hundred andlsixty-three, and July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, upon petition to be filed in said court at any time within two years from the passage of this act, any statute of imitations to the country notwithstanding: Provided, however, That unless the said court P¤>vf•¤•¤ shall, on a preliminary in uiry, find that said Briggs was in fact loyal to the United States Covernment. and that the assignment to I·<>>’¤**¥· him hereinafter mentioned was bona fide, the court shall not have jurisdiction of the case, and the same shall, without further proceedings, be dismissed: And prov ided further, That if the court s all find that the alleged assignment from one Morehead to said Briggs, of date Assignment. April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, under which said Briggs claimed said cotton, was intended only as security to said Brig for indebtedness, and against contingent iabilities assumed by him fdr said Morehead, judgment shall be rendered for such portion of the proceeds of said cotton as will satisfy the debts and claims of said Briggs, to secure which said assmnment was given: Provided said _ judgment shall not be paid out 0 the general fund in the Treasurly Pirymeut. arising from the sale of captured and abandoned property, but shall be 'd out of the special fund charged to and accounted for by Capt. G. Tlllliort, Assistant Quartermaster at Memphis, arising from the sale of the two thousand two hundred and nine bales of cotton, re—. ceived by him, with which claimants cotton was intermingled, said. claimant to receive only the proportion which his cotton bears to the - net proceeds accounted for by said Fort. Approved, June 4, 1888.