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to the Treasury Department on or before January first, nineteen hundred and six, or be forever barred." SEC. 2. That where the governor of State or Terri- Final any tory has furnished military transportation, or has pur- disallowed chased or authorized the purchase of supplies, or incurred claims. expenses for services rendered, and which purchases of supplies and expenses for military transportation and services rendered have been certified by the governor of such State or Territory as necessary, just, and reasonable for the organization, maintenance, transportation, and comfort of troops raised by him and accepted into the service of the United States Army in the said war with Spain, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow in the settlement of claims for reimbursement now on file in the office of the Auditor for the War Department, such items or parts thereof as have been disallowed in the consideration of said claims, for the reason that they appear to have been for stores furnished or expenses incurred or transportation furnished after the troops raised had been mustered into the service of the United States; and the certificate of the governor Governor's of any such State or Territory that such expenses were cient proof of incurred in good faith, for the sole purpose of aiding the expenses United States in the raising, organization, transportation, and equipment of troops, shall be held to be sufficient to authorize the final settlement and payment in full of such claims for reimbursement.

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CHAP. 1630.-An Act Making appropriations to supply defi- April 27, 1904. ciencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June H. R. 15054.] thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for prior years, and for [Public, No. other purposes.

189.] 33 Stats. L.,

Deficiencies appropriations.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- pt. 1, p. 394. tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:

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For the payment of the judgments, except the judg- Joseph Sudsment in favor of Joseph Sudsburger, numbered twenty- ed. one thousand two hundred and fifty-four, rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to Congress in House Documents Numbered Six hundred and fifty-four and Six hundred and seventy-two, and Senate Documents Numbered Two hundred and eighty-seven, Two hundred and ninety-two, and Two hundred and ninety-six, of the

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present session, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and thirty-two cents: Provided, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired:

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SEC. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered six hundred and seventy reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:

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CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND
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For determining the most practicable route for canal across the Isthmus of Panama, thirty-five dollars.

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FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, THIRD SESSION.

CHAP. 777.-An Act For the allowance of certain claims re- Feb. 24, 1905. ported by the Court of Claims, and for other purposes.

[H. R. 9548.]

[ Public, No. 99.] 33 Stats. L., pt. 1, p. 743.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is Appropriahereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money ment of claims in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to claimants reported by in this Act named the several sums appropriated herein, Claims, etc. the same being in full for and the receipt of the same to be taken and accepted in each case as a full and final release and discharge of their respective claims, namely:

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To Frank Guertin, fifteen dollars and eighty-nine

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To Joseph F. Travers, guardian of Michael Travers, of the Island of Japonsky, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

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PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

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To John Corwine, of Manila, sixty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents.

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To the members of the band of the Second Regiment Second RegiWisconsin Volunteer Infantry, for the hire, use, and una- Infantry. voidable damage to certain band instruments, their pri- band." vate property, while in the service of the United States during the recent war with Spain, and to pay to each of said men, or to their heirs, administrators, and assigns of such of them as shall have in the meantime deceased, the sums which appear opposite their names, as follows, towit: Henry Johnson, thirty-seven dollars and sixteen cents; Charles E. Collar, twenty-one dollars and ninetyone cents; Frank Novotny, seventeen dollars and thirtythree cents; Robert Brand, junior, deceased, fifty-five dollars; Louis Simmet, five dollars; Fred W. Kohl,

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twelve dollars and sixteen cents; Eugene R. Billett, eight dollars and eighty-three cents; Frank A. Kroeff, eighteen dollars and thirty-three cents; Albert Boehm, seven dollars and eighty-three cents; Frank H. Kempt, twentytwo dollars and sixteen cents; Herman F. Discher, six dollars and sixty-six cents; Joseph J. Nussbaumer, twenty-two dollars and sixteen cents; Henry Ebeling, junior, three dollars and fifty cents; Herman Nagel, twenty-two dollars and eighty-three cents; Ferdinand Wetzel, forty dollars and fifty cents; Charles Neumann, eleven dollars and sixteen cents; George Johnson, twentyfive dollars; Ambrosius Jachinski, twenty-two dollars and sixteen cents; Oscar Hensel, seven dollars and eight cents; William J. Trier, deceased, thirty-six dollars and fifty cents; Adolph G. Markworth, thirteen dollars and sixteen cents; total, four hundred and sixteen dollars and forty-two cents.

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To M. A. Gantt and Son, of Conecuh County, Alabama, the sum of one hundred dollars and fifty cents, for board and lodging furnished by them to volunteer soldiers who enlisted in the Second Regiment Alabama Volunter Infantry during the Spanish-American war.

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For the allowance of claims of certain citizens of Virizens of, for ginia for damages to their property incident to the envolunteers, war campment at Manassas and march from Camp Alger to Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia, as recommended by a board of officers appointed for the consideration of claims for damages to property by volunteer soldiers during the war with Spain.

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Archibald W. To Captain Archibald W. Butt, quartermaster, United States Army, the sum of four hundred and eighty dollars, amounts stolen from the United States in Manila, Philippine Islands, by an employee of the quartermaster's department, by name José B. Luciano, the said Captain. Archibald W. Butt having fully paid said sum to the United States

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Leonard L. To Leonard L. Deitrick, late first lieutenant, Thirtyfourth Infantry, United States Volunteers, the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars, said sum having been United States funds stolen from his safe at Penaranda, Nueva Ecija, Philippine Islands, at some time between December third, nineteen hundred, and December twenty

fourth, nineteen hundred, while he was acting commissary officer; and which sum the said Leonard L. Deitrick accounted for and paid to the proper officer of the United States from his own private funds.

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CHAP. 1447.-An Act To extend the time within which actions Mar. 3, 1905. [H. R. 17102.] for the recovery of duties paid in Porto Rico may be brought in the Court of Claims under the Act of April twenty-ninth, nine- [Public, No. 180.] teen hundred and two. 33 Stats. L., pt. 1, p. 1013.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time within which actions may be brought in Porto Rican the Court of Claims for the recovery of customs duties Time paid to the military authorities in the island of Porto Rico tended to file upon articles imported from the several States and en-funding. tered at the several ports of entry in Porto Rico from and including April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninetynine, to May first, nineteen hundred, under the Act of April twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and two, chapter six hundred and forty of the laws of the Fifty-seventh Congress, first session, be, and it is hereby, extended until six months from the date of the passage of this Act.

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