Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 431.
(No Report.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
April 26, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on
the state of the Union.
Mr. Boyd, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported
the following bill:
A BILL
For the payment of a company of Indian volunteers, called
into the service of the United States.

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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 War be, and he is here-
by, authorized and required to cause to be paid to the spy
company of Indian mounted volunteers, (Shawnees and
Delawares,) called and mustered into the service of the
United States by Colonel W. S. Harney, United States
army, on the first day of June, eighteen hundred and
forty-six, and discharged the thirty-first day of August,
eighteen hundred and forty-six, one day’s pay and allow-
ances for every day held in service under said muster, and
the usual travelling allowances according to rates establish

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thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for this object, out
of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

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 War be, and he is here- by, authorized and required to cause to be paid to the spy company of Indian mounted volunteers, (Shawnees and Delawares,) called and mustered into the service of the United States by Colonel W. S. Harney, United States army, on the first day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and discharged the thirty-first day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, one day’s pay and allow- ances for every day held in service under said muster, and the usual travelling allowances according to rates establish
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13 14 15	ed for volunteers under existing laws; and the sum of four thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for this object, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.