Thirtieth Congress,
thiFirst Session,
BE IT ENACTED
By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress Assembled.

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Isaac Shepard, a private in Colonel H. Marshall’s regiment of Kentucky mounted volunteers, such sum of money as the accounting officers of the treasury shall ascertain said Shepard’s horse to have been worth when it was killed in the public service, by being used to carry an express from Monterey to Victoria, in Mexico, in the month of January, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.