Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 537.
(Report No. 673.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
June 14, 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 Larkin Smith.

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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 the Treasury be, and
he is hereby, authorized and required, out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the
legal representative or representatives of Larkin Smith,
five years’ full pay of a captain of cavalry, with interest
thereon, as herein directed; the same being due to the
said Larkin Smith for his service as a captain of cavalry
in the army of the United States, in the war of the revolu-
tion. The interest hereby allowed is to be computed in
the same manner as if a certificate for five years’ full pay

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17 of a captain of cavalry had issued to Larkin Smith on
the third day of November, seventeen hundred and eighty-
three, and had been subscribed to the public debt under the
funding act passed in the year seventeen hundred and
ninety.

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 the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the legal representative or representatives of Larkin Smith, five years’ full pay of a captain of cavalry, with interest thereon, as herein directed; the same being due to the said Larkin Smith for his service as a captain of cavalry in the army of the United States, in the war of the revolu- tion. The interest hereby allowed is to be computed in the same manner as if a certificate for five years’ full pay
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13 14 15 16 17	of a captain of cavalry had issued to Larkin Smith on the third day of November, seventeen hundred and eighty- three, and had been subscribed to the public debt under the funding act passed in the year seventeen hundred and ninety.