Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 639.
(Report No. 822.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
August 8, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Daniel P. King, from the Committee on Revolutionary
Claims, reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of the legal representatives of Colonel Willis
Reddick, deceased.

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11 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That there be paid to the legal representatives
of Colonel Willis Reddick, deceased, out of any money in
the treasury no otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight
thousand dollars, in full satisfaction of all claims against
the United States, for the destruction of the house, out-
houses, and other property of said Colonel Willis
Reddick, by the enemy during the revolutionary war, in
consequence of being made the depository of the public
stores.