Volume 24 · 916
Private Law 49–235
for the relief of Major G. W. Candee.
Approved February 23, 1887
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Major G. W. Candee.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That there be paid to Major G. W. Candee, paymaster United States Army, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars, being the amount stolen from him at Fort Arbuckle, Indian Territory, in the fall of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine,
Proviso.
Court of Claims to determine if loss was without negligent.
and was restored by him out of private funds: Provided, That the Court of Claims shall find the loss of said funds to have been without fault or negligence on the part of said officer; and jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Court of Claims to hear and determine such matter, without regard to the limitation imposed by section ten hundred and sixty-nine, Revised Statutes, and render judgment accordingly.
Approved, February 23, 1887.