Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 585.
(Report No. 744.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
July 12, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. John A. Rockwell, from the Committee of Claims, reported
the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of Orange H. Dibble.

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10 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, directed to pay to Orange H. Dibble, the
sum of ten thousand dollars, out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation
for the balance due for damages sustained by him, in con-
sequence of the repeal of the law authorizing the building
of a bridge across the Potomac at the city of Wash-
ington.