Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—SECOND SESSION.
H. R. 788.
(Report No. 106.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 21, 1849.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. John A. Rockwell, from the Committee of Claims, reported
the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of Charles Stewart.

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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, authorized and required to pay, out of any money
in the treasury no otherwise appropriated, to Charles
Stewart, late a private in company K, of the seventh regi-
ment of New York volunteers, commanded by Colonel
Stevenson, generally known as the Californian regiment,
such sum as he would have been entitled to receive for
pay, rations, and clothing, from the time he enlisted in

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13 said company to his return to Norfolk, on the eighth
October, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, had he re-
mained with said regiment during that time.

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, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury no otherwise appropriated, to Charles Stewart, late a private in company K, of the seventh regi- ment of New York volunteers, commanded by Colonel Stevenson, generally known as the Californian regiment, such sum as he would have been entitled to receive for pay, rations, and clothing, from the time he enlisted in
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11 12 13	said company to his return to Norfolk, on the eighth October, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, had he re- mained with said regiment during that time.