Public Law 64–240

That the claim of the State of

Massachusetts.

Claims for premium, etc., referred to Court of Claims.

Massachusetts for premium paid for coin with which it paid the interest and principal of its bonds issued in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one for money borrowed and used to furnish troops of the State for the service of the United States during the Civil War, and also its claim for interest and premium paid for coin used in payment of such interest on bonds issued for money borrowed and expended at the request, during said war, of the President of the United States in protecting the harbors and fortifying the coast, which claims were rejected by the Comptroller of the Treasury Department, be, and the same are hereby, referred to the Court of Claims for a determination of the law and the facts and report to Congress. The evidence of

Evidence admitted.

the amount of said expenditures and of the computations of such premiums made by the accounting officers of the Treasury on file in said department, as furnished by the State, may be considered by the court so as to relieve the State of the necessity of again filing said evidence in court.