Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury, under the direction of the Secretary of War, settle the claim of Charles L. Dell, of Florida, for military services performed during the Seminole war, between the twenty-third of May and the twenty-ninth of November, eighteen hundred and forty, making to him such compensation for pay and allowances as shall appear to be just; and that the amount which shall be so ascertained to be due, to be paid to him, notwithstanding the want of a muster roll bearing his name, and that the same shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, June 13, 1848.