Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 601.
(Report No. 765.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
July 19, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Meade, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the
following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of Henry Gardner and others, directors of an
association called the New England Mississippi Land Company.

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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, authorized and required to pay, out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to
Henry Gardner and others, directors of an association
called the New England Mississippi Land Company, or
their lawful attorney, the sum of ninety-five thousand four
hundred and three dollars; which payment shall have the
same operation and effect as if the same had been decreed

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19 to said directors by the commissioners, under an act of
Congress for their indemnification, passed thirty-first
March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled,
“An act providing for the indemnification of certain claim-
ants of public lands in the Mississippi Territory,” and
the acts supplementary thereto, and shall be in full for all
claims of said company to the lands mentioned in said
act, and in their release to the United States, made in pur-
suance thereof.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 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, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Henry Gardner and others, directors of an association called the New England Mississippi Land Company, or their lawful attorney, the sum of ninety-five thousand four hundred and three dollars; which payment shall have the same operation and effect as if the same had been decreed
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11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19	to said directors by the commissioners, under an act of Congress for their indemnification, passed thirty-first March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled, “An act providing for the indemnification of certain claim- ants of public lands in the Mississippi Territory,” and the acts supplementary thereto, and shall be in full for all claims of said company to the lands mentioned in said act, and in their release to the United States, made in pur- suance thereof.