Private Law 23–LXXXVII

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury

Payment of amount awarded under act of March 3, 1823, ch. 35.

not otherwise appropriated, the amount awarded by the judge of the superior court at St. Augustine, in the Territory of Florida, under the authority of the one hundred and sixty-first chapter of the acts of the seventeenth Congress, approved third March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, for losses occasioned in East Florida, by the troops in the service of the United States, in the years one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, in all cases where the decision of the said judge shall be deemed, by the Secretary of the Treasury, to be just: Provided, That no award be

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paid, except in the case of those who, at the time of suffering the loss, were actual subjects of the Spanish Government: And provided, also,

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That no award be paid for depredations committed in East Florida, previous to the entrance into that province of the agent or troops of the United States.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That the judge of the superior

Judge at St. Augustine to examine claims.

court of St. Augustine be, and he hereby is, authorized to receive, examine, and adjudge, all cases of claims for losses occasioned by the troops aforesaid, in one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, not heretofore presented to the said judge, or in which the evidence was withheld, in consequence of the decision of the Secretary of the Treasury, that such claims were not provided for by the treaty of February twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between the Governments of the United States and Spain: Provided, That such claims be presented to the said

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judge in the space of one year, from the passage of this act: And provided, also, That the authority herein given shall be subject to the restrictions created by the privileges to the preceding section.