Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 323.
(Report No. 343.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
March 9, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Dunn, from the Committee of Claims, reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the payment of a debt due to the heirs of Antoine Peltier.

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14 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 autho-
rized, and he is hereby required, to pay to the heirs of Anto-
ine Peltier, late a citizen of the State of Illinois, the sum of
seventeen hundred and fourteen dollars, with interest there-
on, at the rate of five per centum per annum, from the ninth
day of April, seventeen hundred and eighty-one, until paid,
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropri-
ated, being for money furnished for the use of the Illinois
regiment under the command of General George Rogers
Clark, and for which Lieutenant Colonel John Montgom-
ery drew a bill of exchange on account of the State of
Virginia, in favor of the said Antoine Peltier.