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FIFTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cns. 506-509. 1903. 160:) one hundred and ten dollars and thirty-nine cents, being the balance due for necessary traveling expenses as deputy collector of internal revenue for the district of Colorado for the Hscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred. Approved, February 6, 190. CHAP. 507.-—An Act For the relief of William Dugdale. February 6, 1903. . Be it enacted by the Senate and House q f Representatives of the United [Pmm’ N0' M5`] States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster·General uD¤8d¤l°-u be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to give credit to William www Dugdale, postmaster at Noroton Heights, Connecticut, on his money- order account, for the sum of two thousand one hundred and two dollars and eighty-seven cents, being the balance now charged against him on account of certain money orders obtained by fraud in eighteen hundred and ninety-four by one Leroy Harris, who was afterwards arrested for said offense, convicted, and sent to the penitentiary. Approved, February 6, 1903. CHAP. 508.-An Act Granting a pension to Rebecca Piper. pabmuy 6, lm · Be it enactedby the Senate and House af Rfpresentatives of the United [Pmm’ N0' em'] States of America in Congress assembled, at the Secretary of the §¤;>,<=¢¤Pi1>¢r- " Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and `directed to place on the ° °°' pension roll, subject to themqovisions and limitations of the pension. aws, the name of Rebecca ° r, foster mother of Simpson Eaton, late of Company I, Eighteenth lgdgiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of twelve dollars per month. Approved, February 6, 1903.- CHA?. 509.-An Act For the relief of the heirs of Aaron Van Camp and Virginius Feb,,,,,,,. ,;_ 1,,0;, P- Clmpm- `Ti-1»}§»LI~?§44v. y s Be it enacted by the Senate and House (gf Representatives of tlae United States of America in Congress assemble , That the claim o Aaron Van Aaron vim Cum; Camp and Virginius P. Chapin against the United States (Congres- §§,‘},i,Y"“"""" ‘ sional case numbered one thousand and forty-nine), the tindings of fefjgém g,f*··‘g*¤u<;{- fs, fact in which were transmitted to the House of Representatives by calms. 0 0 House Miscellaneous Document Numbered Eighty-one, Fifty—iirst Congress, second session, is hereby referred to the Court of Claims, to hear and determine the question of the liability of the United States for the losses found by said court, in its said sixth iinding of fact, with jurisdiction to hear and determine the same upon the pr1nciples of law and equity and in compliance with the rules and regulations of said court. And in the event the said court shall be of the opinion that the Judgment. United States are justly liable, under all the circumstances of the said case, for the losses and damages sustained by the said decedents by reason of the acts of their officers in the premises, the said court shall render judgment in favor of the claimants for the amount found to be due by its. sixth finding of fact in the said Congressional case numbered one thousand and forty-nine, as set forth in the report of the said court to the Speaker of the House of Representatives on January eighth,