Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—SECOND SESSION.
H. R. 705.
(Report No. 12.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
January 3, 1849.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Crowell, from the Committee of Claims, reported the
following bill:
A BILL
To provide for the payment of the passage of General Lafayette
from France to the United States in eighteen hundred
and twenty-four.

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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, out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Francis Allyn, for
the use of the owners of the ship Cadmus, in full compen-
sation for bringing General Lafayette and his family
from France to the United States, in the year eighteen
hundred and twenty-four, the sum of four thousand dollars;
and a further sum of one thousand dollars, in full for his
owntime, services, and expenses as master of the same
ship.