Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 221.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 10, 1848.
Mr. Phelps, on leave, introduced the following bill, which was read
twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
March 9, 1848.
Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll, from the said Committee, reported the same
back without amendment, when it was committed to a Committee of
Whole House on the state of the Union.
A BILL
To revive the act entitled “An act to provide for the payment
of horses and other property lost or destroyed in the military
service of the United States,” approved January eighteenth,
eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and the acts approved
October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,
and August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and forty-two,
amendatory of the same.

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8 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the act of Congress, approved January
eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled “An
act to provide for the payment of horses and other proper-
ty lost or destroyed in the military service of the United
States,” and the acts of Congress of October fourteenth,
eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of August twenty

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12 third, eighteen hundred and forty-two, amendatory of the
aforesaid act, be, and the same are hereby, revived, and
shall continue in force for the period of five years from
and after the termination of the existing war with Mexico.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act of Congress, approved January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled “An act to provide for the payment of horses and other proper- ty lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States,” and the acts of Congress of October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of August twenty
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9 10 11 12	third, eighteen hundred and forty-two, amendatory of the aforesaid act, be, and the same are hereby, revived, and shall continue in force for the period of five years from and after the termination of the existing war with Mexico.