98 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 195. 1882. June 5, 1882. CHAP. 195.-An act rccstnblishing the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, ———-——— mul mr tho distribution of the unuppropriated moneys of the Geneva. award. ` Ba it muwied by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 18 smc., 245. States of Amerit·a i u Congress assembled, That the Court of Commissioners R **0*** ¤ M l Sh} of Alabama Claims created by chuptcr four hundred and fifty-nme of the 2,*2*}: of laws of the Forty-third Congress is hereby re-established, in the mgm- Am,,,,,,,,, q;;,,;,,,,,, ner and with the obligations, duties, and power imposed and conferred ctc. by said chapter, except as changed or modiiicd by this act. Judges.Sec. 2.-Tlmt the number of judges for said court, to be nominated and appointed in the mode directed by section two of said chapter, shall Compensation_ be three, each to receive the compensation provided by section four of said chapter. The presiding justice shall be demgnated and vacancies filled as therein provided. The agreement of two of the judges shall be necessary to decide any question arising before said court; and said court shall be allowed the necessary actual expenses provided for in said muh section four. A clerk and reporter shall be appointed and counsel for Reporter. the United States designated as provided in sections four and five of Pom muon. said chapter, each to receive the compensation therein provided; and @$1 for Dip- the marshal of the United States for the District of Columbia, or his
- "'°* °f c°"“¤‘”° deputies, shall perform the duties prescribed in section six of said
Q'{c_‘°"° ""°°°°· chapter. · To convene in Sec. 3.—Thnt the judges of the 00¤1'li hemby I’G·6Si2a`bIiSh€d shall Washington. D. C. convene and organize, in the city of Washington, as soon as practicable Term of 0;;.;- after their appointment; and the court so organized shall exist two ence or com. _ years; and all claims provable under this act shall be verified by or in mfgefwgggfsg behalf of the claimant and tiled with the clerk of said court within six month months from its organization, or they shall be held to be waived and is Stat., 245. Sm:. 4.-That the practice and proceedings established and directed by said chapter four hundred and fifty-nine shall be followed and had in regard to all claims provable under this act; and it shall be the duty - of the said court hereby re established, in the mode. and subject to all the conditions, limitations, and provisions of said chapter four hundred and fiftymine, except as changed and modiiied by this act, to receive and Claims: examine the claims mentioned in section five of this act and to enter judgments for the amount allowed therefor in two classes. First clam Sec. 5.-That the tirst class shall be for claims directly resulting from damage done on the high seas by Confederate cruisers during the late _ rebellion, including vessels and cargoes attacked on the high seas, although the_ loss or damage occurred within four miles of the shore, excluding claims wluch have been proved PH1‘SH4‘\Dt't0 section eleven of Second class. said chapter four hundred and iiRy—nine. The second class shall be for claims for the payment of premiums for war risks, whether paid to . corporations, agents, or individuals, after the sailing of any Confederate cruiser. Actual wsse • Sec. 6.—Tl1at in examining claims in either class it shall be the duty °¤'Y °”•“'°**· of the court to deduct any sum received by any claimant as sm indem· ` n1t£v5d;;1;l1eln{l,ls•et·;>F’, c:` otherwise, so that the actual loss of such claiman n a ow . dudgmcnu, new Sm. 7.-jThat the 'udgments rendered by said court under this act iwd- shall be paid by the éecretary of the Treasury out of the sum of money 17 Sm" Sw paid to the United States pursuant to article seven of the treaty of Wnshlllgion, accruing therefrom, not appropriated to claims proved under the provisions of said chapter four hundred and fifty-nine, or any uct extending the time for the filing of claims thereunder. Judgments in S20. 8.-That judgments entered in the first class shall be paid before §:;r§*°{;° *1***;* judgments of the second class are paid. If the sum of money so unspmmm Y P Y propnated shall insufficient to pay the judgments of the first GIBSS, · they shall be paid according to the proportions which they severally bear to the whole amount of such unappropriated sum. If such sum shall be sulilcxent to pay the judgments of the first class andnot sum-
