Private Law 62–43

That the claim of the legal representatives of Samuel Schiffer, growing out of the purchase by the late firm of J. Schiffer and Company, of New York, of certain lots of cotton registered as turned over to or seized by the United States authorities at Savannah, Georgia, about January, February, and March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, in the names of Kesiah Hall, M. Rich, Mrs. John (Catherine) Ruckert, A. Fawcett, Mary Haley, John Elkan, A. B. Wessolowsky, Lewis Levi, Raphael Cohen, Simon (or Solomon) Cotner, L. Hohenstein, S. W. Silverhill, Mrs. H. M. Kenney, and Mrs. Henry (Hannah) Fowler, be, and the same is hereby, referred with all accompanying papers to the Court of Claims,

Jurisdiction conferred.

and jurisdiction is hereby conferred on said court to hear and determine the same, and to enter judgment for any amount found to be due as the net proceeds of the sale of said cotton or any part thereof, the

Appeal to Supreme Court.

said judgment to be subject to an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. Said court is hereby authorized to consider said

Vol. 36, p. 1139.

claim under the provision of section one hundred and sixty-two of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and eleven (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page eleven hundred and thirty-five, the Judicial Code), and to adjudge said claim, the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and

Vol. 13, p, 375.

sixty-four (Thirteenth Statutes at Large, page three hundred and seventy-six), and all other nonintercourse laws to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, however, That in no event shall the judgment

Proviso.

Amount of judgment limited.

rendered in said cause, if any, exceed the sum of sixty-two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and thirty-four cents, and the amount of such judgment, if any, when paid to the claimants, shall be received by them in full settlement and satisfaction of all claims.