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ants, or employees, or any of them, or for any subscriptions to the 

 capital stock, or for any certificates of stock, bonds, mortgages, or 

 obligations of any kind issued by said corporation, or for any debts, 

 liabilities, or expenses of any kind whatever attending- such corporation 

 or accruing by reason of the same. 



That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to create any 

 liability of the United States, direct or indirect, for any debt or obli- 

 gation incurred, nor for any claim for aid or pecuniary assistance from 

 Congress or the Treasury of the United States in support or liquida- 

 tion of any debts or obligations created by said commission in excess 

 of appropriations made by Congress therefor. 



(Approved, June 10, 1896, Statutes of the Fifty-fourth Congress, first 

 session, p. 382.) 



