Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 269.
(Report No. 274.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 29, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Bayly, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported the
the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of Andrew C. Armstrong.

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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 proper accounting officers of the
treasury be authorized, and the are hereby required, to
readjust the account of Andrew C. Armstrong, late navy
agent at Lima, in Peru, by allowing him all the rejected
credits stated in the document, called, in the office of the
Fourth Auditor, “Reconcilement of the account of Andrew
C. Armstrong, late navy agent,” and in the said adjustment
the said Armstrong be allowed all payments made by force
of the warrant of distress issued upon the balance stated
against him on the eleventh August, eighteen hundred and
thirty-two, in the Fourth Auditor’s office; and the said

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5 account shall be so adjusted as that the balance of four
thousand six hundred and eighty-one dollars and seventy-
four cents, which should have been reported in his favor
on the eleventh August, eighteen hundred and thirty-two,
be now awarded and made available to him as fully and
as effectually as if his account had been so adjusted in the
first settlement, and the warrant of distress prevented.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
balance found to be due to said Armstrong, upon the readjust-
ment of his account upon the principles herein directed,
be paid to him out of any moneys in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.

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 the proper accounting officers of the treasury be authorized, and the are hereby required, to readjust the account of Andrew C. Armstrong, late navy agent at Lima, in Peru, by allowing him all the rejected credits stated in the document, called, in the office of the Fourth Auditor, “Reconcilement of the account of Andrew C. Armstrong, late navy agent,” and in the said adjustment the said Armstrong be allowed all payments made by force of the warrant of distress issued upon the balance stated against him on the eleventh August, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, in the Fourth Auditor’s office; and the said
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14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 2 3 4 5	account shall be so adjusted as that the balance of four thousand six hundred and eighty-one dollars and seventy- four cents, which should have been reported in his favor on the eleventh August, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be now awarded and made available to him as fully and as effectually as if his account had been so adjusted in the first settlement, and the warrant of distress prevented. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the balance found to be due to said Armstrong, upon the readjust- ment of his account upon the principles herein directed, be paid to him out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.