Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 641.
(Report No. 824.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
August 8, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Butler, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims
reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of Moses Van Campen.

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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 the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he
is hereby, authorized and required to pay Moses Van
Campen, of Livingston county in the State of New York,
a sum of money equivalent to the interest that would have
been payable on a certificate, had said Van Campen re-
ceived his certificate for five years’ full pay as lieutenant
of infantry on the continental establishment on his leaving
the army, and had subscribed the same under the funding
act of the fourth August, seventeen hundred and ninety.