Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 515.
(Report No. 648.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
May 30, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Grinnell, from the Committee on Commerce, reported the
following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of Henry Little and Jacob Felch.

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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 there be appropriated, out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum not ex-
ceeding three hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary
of the Treasury to Henry Little and Jacob Felch, or their
assigns, for damage cause to their land on Woodbridge’s
island, Merrimac river, in the State of Massachusetts,
cause by a breach in the breakwater which the United
States built in said river: Provided, that said Henry Lit-
le and Jacob Felch, shall present to the Secretary of War
satisfactory evidence that the injury to their land was

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amount of such injury; the sum, however, to be paid by the
Secretary of the Treasury, on the warrant or certificate of
the Secretary of War, is not to exceed three hundred
dollars.

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 there be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum not ex- ceeding three hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to Henry Little and Jacob Felch, or their assigns, for damage cause to their land on Woodbridge’s island, Merrimac river, in the State of Massachusetts, cause by a breach in the breakwater which the United States built in said river: Provided, that said Henry Lit- le and Jacob Felch, shall present to the Secretary of War satisfactory evidence that the injury to their land was
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13 14 15 16 17	caused by the breach in said breakwater; and also the amount of such injury; the sum, however, to be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the warrant or certificate of the Secretary of War, is not to exceed three hundred dollars.