Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 2.
(Report No. 2.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
December 20, 1847.
Read a first and second time, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. John A. Rockwell, from the Committee on claims, reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of Robert Roberts.

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13 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United State of America in Congress
assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and
he is hereby, instructed to pay to Robert Roberts such
proportion of the sum of nine thousand two hundred and
thirty-five dollars and forty-four cents, out of the funds
obtained for the liquidation of claims under the treaty
concluded with Spain on the twenty-second of February,
eighteen hundred and nineteen, and under the treaty with
France in eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to be taken in
equal amounts from each, as shall not exceed the dividend
allowed by the commissioners under said treaties, together
with the interest on said sum from the time when the

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payable: Provided, however, That if either fund is
exhausted, the claim shall be paid from the other; but in
no case shall the claim be paid from the unappropriated
funds of the treasury of the United States.

The Committee of Claims report the following Amendment
(strike out from the enacting clause & insert)

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HR 2
(Report N^o 2)

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December 20. 1847
Read twice & [committed?] to a Committee of the whole House tomorrow

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January 14, 1848
Reported without amendment

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January 21, 1848
Re-committed to the Committee of claims with instructions “to indicate the fund out of which it shall be paid.”

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January 17, 1849
Reported back with an amendment, & the said bill & amendment committed to a committee of the whole House to morrow & ordered to be printed.

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A Bill [For?],

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That the Secretary of the Treasury be instructed to ascertain from the proof accompanying the claim of Robert Roberts, and from any other testimony which may be furnished, whether the sum of $9,235,44 due to Robert Roberts as set forth in his petition, dated Dec. 23, 1845, is justly chargeable to the fund for the liquidation of Claims under the Treaty concluded with Spain on the 22^d of February 1819, or under the Treaty with France concluded in 1831—and that he cause to be paid to said Robert Roberts such proportion of the said sum out of the said fund so determined by him as shall not exceed the dividend allowed by the Commissioners under the said Treaty: and, in order that the said claim shall be placed on the same ground with the claims allowed by the said Commissioners, that interest be computed on the said sum from the time when the several amounts awarded by the commissioners became payable. Provided however, That, in no event, shall the claim be paid out of the unappropriated funds of the Treasury of the United States, nor out of any funds

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awarded by the said commissioners to, and the property of, other claimants or their representatives.

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Substitute.

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Amendment

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H. R. No 2 With A

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C. E Stuart to refer to C.W. & pr

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Mr. J. A. Rockwell, claims.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United State of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, instructed to pay to Robert Roberts such proportion of the sum of nine thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars and forty-four cents, out of the funds obtained for the liquidation of claims under the treaty concluded with Spain on the twenty-second of February, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and under the treaty with France in eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to be taken in equal amounts from each, as shall not exceed the dividend allowed by the commissioners under said treaties, together with the interest on said sum from the time when the
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14 15 16 17 18	several amounts awarded (by) the commissioners became payable: Provided, however, That if either fund is exhausted, the claim shall be paid from the other; but in no case shall the claim be paid from the unappropriated funds of the treasury of the United States.