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1404 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cus. 36, 38, 39. 1909. J¤¤¤é¤r”2z»·]19¤9· _ 36.-—Anf rmt go Ulysses G. Winn for money erroneously paid · nn e Treasury o e m . [Private,l|o. nl.] m G wm Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repreaentativea of the United ael;i°:n·§¤memf States of America in Oongreas assembled, That there be, and is hereby, - appiggpriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropria , the sum of one hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty cents, to reimburse Ulysses G. Winn for said amount, erroneously deposited by him while United States commissioner at Center and Stonewall, in the southern district of the Indian Territory, in the years nineteen hundred and nineteen hundred and one, and which were paid into the Treasury of the United States. Approved, January 22, 1909. Jsnugy ‘?,]1s¤•. CHAP. 38.-An Act For the relief of D. J. Holmes. [raven, rn. sz.; Be it enacted by the Senate and &uce of R of tlte United D J Hmm States of America in Oongreaa assembled, That the Secretary of the xénhimsméur. Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed, out of any mone in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pa to D. J. Holmes, of Portlau , Oregon. the sum of five hundred ollars, in full satisfaction for moneys expended by said Holmes on preemption claim to the northwest quarter of section ten, in township six south, of range twelve east of the Willamette meridian, in The Dalles land district, State of Oregon, on which he filed declaratory statement numbered four thousan six hundred and eighty-eight, June first, eighteen hundred and eighty-tive, and on whic he settled May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and from which he was ousted by the same being includieg by a certain survey in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in said tate. Approved, January 23, 1909. January 2%,1909. CHAP. 89.-An Act For the relief of the owners of the steam lighter Climax _ l$· ‘-me-l and the cargo laden aboard thereof. [mlm' hc. SM Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofllepreeentatiizes of the United

 ”"*‘“‘ States of America in. Congress assenebled That the claims of the own-

Clnims f<>rd~¤•e¤·¤ ers of the steam lighter Climax, injured and sunk by collision with gldilgilnthigill-ill: iii the United States il ht-house tender Cactus on the afternoon of the New Y"'*· icwenty-fifth] day of Spvegiaberh nineteen hundred apd ive, in the; East iver, off the horoug o Ian attan, cit of New or , State o ew York, for and on account of the loss andyinjury to the said vessel and cargo and damages to the owners thereof, may be submitted to the United States district court for the southern district of New York, under and in compliance with the rules of the said court sitting as a . court of admiralty, and said court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine and to render jud ment thereupon upon the same princi les and measures of liability and damages in ike cases in admiralty: Bro- "'"'""- _ vided, h¤»we»·m·, That the investigation of the said claim shall be made ridillm of hmmm, upon the following basis:

¤$ZF°"°mm°"t ° First. 'l`he said court shall find the facts attending the loss and injury

to the said steam lighter Climax and her cargo and damages to the ~ owners thereof. ¤-¤·r¤·i·~i¤¤ the Second. If it shall appear that the res nsibility therefor rests with ”m°`°°°°' damm" the said United States light-house tendlig Cactus the court shall then ascertain and determine the amounts which should he paid to the own- Els, respectively, of the Climax, and of her cargo, in order to reim-