Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—SECOND SESSION.
H. R. 748.
(Report No. 50.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
January 31, 1849.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of Lieutenant John E. Bispham, of the United States
navy.

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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 accounting officers of the treasury
be, and they are hereby, authorized to ascertain the
amount disbursed by Lieutenant John E. Bispham, in the
defence of a certain proceeding in the district court of the
United States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania,
wherein Charles J. Lovett and others were libellants and
the said John E. Bispham was the respondent, and also
the amount for which he is justly liable as counsel fees or

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14 otherwise, by reason of the said libel suit, and the amount
which may be so ascertained is hereby appropriated for
the payment of the same, out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated.

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 accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to ascertain the amount disbursed by Lieutenant John E. Bispham, in the defence of a certain proceeding in the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, wherein Charles J. Lovett and others were libellants and the said John E. Bispham was the respondent, and also the amount for which he is justly liable as counsel fees or
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11 12 13 14	otherwise, by reason of the said libel suit, and the amount which may be so ascertained is hereby appropriated for the payment of the same, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.