Aug. 7, 1848.
Chap. CXLVI. — An Act for the Relief of certain Tennessee Volunteers.
Certain mounted Tennessee volunteers to be paid each 40 cents per day for the use
and risk of his horse, and 15 cents per day for forage, from 1st November, 1836, till
the date of their discharge.
Proviso.
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,
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out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the mounted Tennessee
volunteers who served in the companies of Captains Gillespie, Peake, and Vernon, and
Rogers, in eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to each the sum of forty cents per day
for the use and risk of his horse, and fifteen cents per day for forage, from the
first day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the date of the order of General
Wool, until the day they were finally discharged, according to law, from the public
service: Provided, Said allowances shall be made by the accounting officers upon the same principles
and upon like proofs as are required in other cases where similar allowances are made
by law.
Approved, August 7, 1848.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Private Acts, 30th Cong., 1st sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 732-33