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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 496. 1891. 823 barred, and the money attributable thereto shall belon to such State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, respectively, as the case may be. V Sec. 4. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury Payment mr- lands to play to such persons as shall in each case apply therefor, and fur- °°1“‘“S°““"°“'°“““· nis satisfactory evidence that such applicant was at the time of the sales hereinafter mentioned the legal owner, or is the heir at law or devises of the legal owner of such lands as were sold in the parishes of Saint Helena and Saint Luke’s in the State of South Carolina, under the said acts of Conglress, the value of said lands in the manner following, to wit: To the owners of the lots in the town of Beau- Beeufcrtlcts fort, one-ha f of the value assessed thereon for taxation by the United States direct-tax commissioners for South Carolina; to the owners of lands which were rated for taxation by the State of South Farmlands. Carolina as being usually cultivated, five dollars per acre for each acre thereof returned on the proper tax-book; to the owners of all other lands, one dollar per acre for each acre thereof returned on oem mms. said tax—book: Provided, That in all cases where such owners, or Mmm;. persons claiming under them, have redeemed or purchased said 1·¤¤d¤ redeemech ands, or any part thereof, from the United States, the shall not Ante D468- receive compensation for such art so redeemed or purchased; and any sum or sums held or to be held by the said State of South Carolina in trust for an such owner under section three of this act shall be deducted from the sum due to such owner under the provisions Deduction or sui-- of this section: And provided further, That in all cases where said Pm P'°°°°**“· owners have heretofore received from the United States the sur lus proceeds arisin from the sale of their lands, such sums shall) be educated from gre sum which they are entitled to receive under this act. That in all cases where ersons, while serving in the Army or nep¤ymm m m1- n Navy or Marine Corps of the limited States, or who had been honor- g*h&°°°·· *°' P*¤‘· ably discharged from said service, purchased any of said lands under section eleven of the act of Congress approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and such ands afterwards reverted to the United States, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to such (persons as shall in each case apfply therefor, or to their heirs at law, evisees, or grantees, in good aith and for valuable consideration, whatever sum was so paid to the United States in such case. That before paying any money to such persons the mime. Secretary of the Treasury s a 1 require the person or persons entitled to receive the same to execute a release of all claims and demands of every kind and description whatever against the United States arisin out of the execution of said acts, an also a release of all right, titie, and interest in and to the said lands. That there is Appmpmmu. hereby appropriated, out of anfy money in the Treasury not otherwise applropriated, the sum of ve hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may benecessary to pay for said lots and lands, which sum shall include all moneys in the Treasury derived in any manner from the enforcement of said acts in said parishes, and not otherwise appropriated. That section one thousand and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes is hereby made applicable to claims arising under this act without limitation as to the amount involved in such claim; And pro-vided furfher, That any sum or sums of money Repayment or proreceived into the Treasury of the United States from the sale of °°°*” °’”” *’°*°S- lands bid in for taxes in any State under the laws described in the first section of this act in excess of the tax assessed thereon shall be paid to the owners of the land so bid in and resold, or to their legal eir or representatives. Approved, March 2, 1891.