Volume 6
Private Law 27–CC
for the relief of Charles F. Sibbald.
Approved August 23, 1842
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Charles F. Sibbald.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the third Auditor of the Treasury, under
Amount of damages to be ascertained and paid.
the direction of the Attorney-General, be, and he is hereby, directed to ascertain the actual damages which Charles F. Sibbald has sustained and would be entitled to recover upon the principles of law as applicable to similar cases, by reason of the interference of any agent or agents of the United States acting under their authority, with the use, possession, or enjoyment of his lands, limiter, mills, or other property in East Florida, from eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, to February seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, at which time the title of said property was confirmed to the said Charles F. Sibbald by the Supreme Court of the United States; and that the Secretary of the Treasury, after the said damages shall have been ascertained in the manner aforesaid, in case any sum shall be found due to said Charles F. Sibbald, shall pay the same to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .