FIFTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cns. 2870, 2871. 1907.
- 0}- CHAP. 2870.—An Act For the relief of Franklin Patterson.
6*29-1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRq>resentat¢h1es of the United umn. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury` of the United States of America be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any moneys not otherwise approriated, to pay to Franklin Patterson, of Atlantic Highlands, New gersey, the sum of one thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars, said yment when made to be in full satisfaction of the claim of said F rankalin Patterson, an applying creditor, in full satisfaction of all claim against the United States of America, under a certain attachment issued on the fourth da of September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-one, out og the inferior court of common pleas of the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, at the suit of Eusebius W. Arrowsmith, junior, plaintiff, against The Pneumatic- Dynamite Gun Company, defendant, andlevied upon the said Pneumatic Dynamite Gun Company plant, on the United States reservation at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, which plant was afterwards purchased by the United States of America while still subject to the lien of said attachment; said claim, although ppior to the title of the United States of America to said pro rty, ing still unpaid, although the plaintiff has been settled withmand said Franklin Patterson and Frederick Parker, the duly appointed auditor in said attachment, havin been enjoined and prevented from selling said plant on the ground tbat the same was a necessary part of the defenses of the city of New York and that there was no a propriation for the payment of said claim, but said plant having been afterwards, to wit, in the year nineteen hundred and two, condemned by the United States of America as no longer useful, and having been sold by the United States of America to a private individual or corporation for the sum of twenty thousand dollars or thereabouts which has been paid into the Treasury of the United States, and the said United States of America havin prevented the said Franklin Patterson from makin sale of said pint so attached, although the said injunction from selbng the same was dissolved by the United States circuit court for the district of New Jersey, on the twenryiiirst da of July, anno Domini nineteen hundred and two, and the nited Sytates of America having allowed the purchaser of said goods and chattels so attached to remove and dispose of the same without first paying and satisfying the said claim of said Franklin Patterson. Sec. 2. That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved, March 2, 1907. 7;- GHAP. 2871.-—An Act For the relief of Mrs. R. E. Miller. san.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofR?resentatives of the United yen States of America m Oongresa assembled, That the Secretary of the ng. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro riated, to Mrs. R. E. Miller the sum of four hundred dollars to reimburse her for the said sum paid by her to the Government of the United States in lieu of money belonpnggo the Government stolen from her possession, the said Mrs. R. . iller being at the time of said theft an employee of the post-office at Dallas, Texas. , Approved, March 2, 1907.
