Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 34.
(Report No. 37.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
January 11, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Ligon, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of Bent, St. Vrain, and Company.

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12 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the
treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to audit and
settle the claim of Bent, St. Vrain, and Company, on
principles of equity and justice, for provisions collected for
the use of a detachment of United States troops on the
waters of the upper Arkansas, in the year eighteen hun-
dred and forty-three, under a contract made with Major
Lee, commissary of subsistence at St. Louis, and recom-
mended to be allowed by General Gibson, Commissary
General of Subsistence, by letter to the Second Comptrol

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16 ler, dated May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-
four; and that the amount found due to the said Bent, St.
Vrain, and Company, be paid to them out of any moneys
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

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HR N^o 34
For the relief of Bent, St Vrain & Co

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to audit and settle the claim of Bent, St. Vrain, and Company, on principles of equity and justice, for provisions collected for the use of a detachment of United States troops on the waters of the upper Arkansas, in the year eighteen hun- dred and forty-three, under a contract made with Major Lee, commissary of subsistence at St. Louis, and recom- mended to be allowed by General Gibson, Commissary General of Subsistence, by letter to the Second Comptrol
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13 14 15 16	ler, dated May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and forty- four; and that the amount found due to the said Bent, St. Vrain, and Company, be paid to them out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.