Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 236.
(Report No. 232.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 29, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. John A. Rockwell, from the Committee of Claims, reported
the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of the legal representatives of William D.
Cheever, deceased.

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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 the Secretary of the Treasury be, and
he hereby is, directed to pay to the legal representatives
of William D. Cheever, deceased, twenty-one thousand
two hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighteen cents,
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, being the amount of his loss on treasury notes
while engaged in supplying the army of the United States,
under a contract with the Secretary of War, during the
years eighteen hundred and fourteen and eighteen hundred
and fifteen, and reported by the Secretary of the Treasury
to be due.