Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 425.
(Report No. 504.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
April 26, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Tallmadge, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims,
reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of H. M. Salomon.

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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, in consideration of the sacrifices of
Haym Salomon in the war of the revolution, and the
pecuniary aid which he rendered to this country in that
memorable struggle, and to evince the grateful sense of
the American people for his disinterested and patriotic
devotion to the cause, and to remunerate Haym M.
Salomon, his only surviving son, for the loss of patri-
monial estate, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and
he hereby is, authorized and directed to issue and deliver
to Haym M. Salomon, only surviving son and legal rep

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37 resentative of said Haym Salomon, or his legally ap-
pointed attorney or attornies, administrators or assigns,
certificates or land scrip, in such sum or sums as said
Haym M. Salomon, or his executors, or administrators,
or assigns may desire, not less than two hundred dollars
in each certificate or land scrip, which shall state the
bearer thereof is entitled to purchase at public sale or
private entry, at any of the land offices in the United
States, any of the lands which have been surveyed and
exposed to sale or liable to entry; and such certificate or
land scrip shall be received in payment for such land,
and the receiver of the land office of the United States
shall receive such certificate or land scrip as cash, in
payment for any land so purchased. Such certificates or
land scrip, in the aggregate, shall be equal to the amount
of indebtedness of the United States to said Haym
Salomon at the time of his death, as the same shall
appear from the inventory of revolutionary indebtedness
of the United States, at his death, to his estate, without
depreciation, as filed by his administrators on the fifteenth
February, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, in the court
of probates in Philadelphia, and sworn to on the fifth
August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, with interest
added to the treasury and commission certificates, from
January one, seventeen hundred and ninety, to January

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office of the Register of the Treasury of the United
States, fifth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, by
Michael Nourse, esq., chief clerk.

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, in consideration of the sacrifices of Haym Salomon in the war of the revolution, and the pecuniary aid which he rendered to this country in that memorable struggle, and to evince the grateful sense of the American people for his disinterested and patriotic devotion to the cause, and to remunerate Haym M. Salomon, his only surviving son, for the loss of patri- monial estate, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to issue and deliver to Haym M. Salomon, only surviving son and legal rep
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13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37	resentative of said Haym Salomon, or his legally ap- pointed attorney or attornies, administrators or assigns, certificates or land scrip, in such sum or sums as said Haym M. Salomon, or his executors, or administrators, or assigns may desire, not less than two hundred dollars in each certificate or land scrip, which shall state the bearer thereof is entitled to purchase at public sale or private entry, at any of the land offices in the United States, any of the lands which have been surveyed and exposed to sale or liable to entry; and such certificate or land scrip shall be received in payment for such land, and the receiver of the land office of the United States shall receive such certificate or land scrip as cash, in payment for any land so purchased. Such certificates or land scrip, in the aggregate, shall be equal to the amount of indebtedness of the United States to said Haym Salomon at the time of his death, as the same shall appear from the inventory of revolutionary indebtedness of the United States, at his death, to his estate, without depreciation, as filed by his administrators on the fifteenth February, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, in the court of probates in Philadelphia, and sworn to on the fifth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, with interest added to the treasury and commission certificates, from January one, seventeen hundred and ninety, to January
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38 39 40 41	one, eighteen hundred and forty-six, as calculated in the office of the Register of the Treasury of the United States, fifth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, by Michael Nourse, esq., chief clerk.