Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 250.
(Report No. 257.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 29, 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 the legal representatives of Captain William
Smallwood Tillard.

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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 Secretary of the Treasury be, and he
is hereby, directed to ascertain the market value of to-
bacco in warehouse in St. Mary’s county, Maryland,
during the month of October, eighteen hundred and four-
teen; and that he allow and pay to the legal representa-
tives of Captain William Smallwood Tillard, late of Mary-
land, deceased, the value of twenty-two thousand three
hundred and twelve pounds of crop tobacco, and seven
thousand nine hundred and forty-eight pounds of second
tobacco, at such ascertained price, out of any money in

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20 the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the quanti-
ty of tobacco belonging, at the time of its destruction, to
the said Tillard, which was taken from the tobacco ware-
house of James Tongue, at Tracy’s Landing, in the said
State of Maryland, and placed in a fortification for the
defence of said warehouse, by order of Captain Franklin,
the officer in command of said post, and destroyed by the
British troops in October, eighteen hundred and fourteen.

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 Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to ascertain the market value of to- bacco in warehouse in St. Mary’s county, Maryland, during the month of October, eighteen hundred and four- teen; and that he allow and pay to the legal representa- tives of Captain William Smallwood Tillard, late of Mary- land, deceased, the value of twenty-two thousand three hundred and twelve pounds of crop tobacco, and seven thousand nine hundred and forty-eight pounds of second tobacco, at such ascertained price, out of any money in
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13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the quanti- ty of tobacco belonging, at the time of its destruction, to the said Tillard, which was taken from the tobacco ware- house of James Tongue, at Tracy’s Landing, in the said State of Maryland, and placed in a fortification for the defence of said warehouse, by order of Captain Franklin, the officer in command of said post, and destroyed by the British troops in October, eighteen hundred and fourteen.