Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 111.
(Report No. 121.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
January 25, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. George G. Dunn, from the Committee of Claims, reported
the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of the heirs of Joseph Gerard.

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13 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That Reese A. P. Gerard, William Gerard,
and Rachel Blue, (formerly Rachel Gerard,) the only child-
ren and heirs of Joseph Gerard, a messenger of the United
States to the Indians, who was killed in seventeen hundred
and ninety-two, be, and they are hereby, permitted to enter,
each one of them, one section of the public lands, without
the payment of any consideration for said three sections,
according to the public surveys hitherto made in the States
of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois; said three sec-
tions of land being in full payment for the patriotic ser-
vices of said Joseph Gerard, and in accordance with the

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ington to be held out to such persons as would consent to
carry a message from Fort Washington, (now Cincinnati,)
in seventeen hundred and ninety-two, to the hostile Indians
of the then northwest territory.

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30th CONGRESS,
30th1st Session. H. R. 111.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
May 29, 1848.
Read twice, and referred to the Committee of Claims.
AN ACT
For the relief of the heirs of Joseph Gerard.

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16 Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That Reese A. P. Gerard, William Gerard,
and Rachel Blue, (formerly Rachel Gerard,) the only child-
ren and heirs of Joseph Gerard, a messenger of the United
States to the Indians, who was killed in seventeen hundred
and ninety-two, be, and they are hereby, permitted to en-
ter, each one of them, one section of the public lands,
without the payment of any consideration for said three
sections, according to the public surveys hitherto made in
the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois, upon
any land subject to private entry; said three sections of
land being in full payment for the patriotic services of said
Joseph Gerard, and in accordance with the spirit of the
inducements authorized by President Washington, to be
held out to such persons as would consent to carry a mes

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hundred and ninety-two, to the hostile Indians of the then
northwest territory.

Passed the House of Representatives: May 26, 1848.
Attest:THO. J. CAMPBELL, Clerk.

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 States of America in Congress assembled, That Reese A. P. Gerard, William Gerard, and Rachel Blue, (formerly Rachel Gerard,) the only child- ren and heirs of Joseph Gerard, a messenger of the United States to the Indians, who was killed in seventeen hundred and ninety-two, be, and they are hereby, permitted to enter, each one of them, one section of the public lands, without the payment of any consideration for said three sections, according to the public surveys hitherto made in the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois; said three sec- tions of land being in full payment for the patriotic ser- vices of said Joseph Gerard, and in accordance with the
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14 15 16 17 18	spirit of the inducements authorized by President Wash- ington to be held out to such persons as would consent to carry a message from Fort Washington, (now Cincinnati,) in seventeen hundred and ninety-two, to the hostile Indians of the then northwest territory.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16	Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Reese A. P. Gerard, William Gerard, and Rachel Blue, (formerly Rachel Gerard,) the only child- ren and heirs of Joseph Gerard, a messenger of the United States to the Indians, who was killed in seventeen hundred and ninety-two, be, and they are hereby, permitted to en- ter, each one of them, one section of the public lands, without the payment of any consideration for said three sections, according to the public surveys hitherto made in the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois, upon any land subject to private entry; said three sections of land being in full payment for the patriotic services of said Joseph Gerard, and in accordance with the spirit of the inducements authorized by President Washington, to be held out to such persons as would consent to carry a mes
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17 18 19	sage from Fort Washington, (now Cincinnati,) in seventeen hundred and ninety-two, to the hostile Indians of the then northwest territory.