BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled,
THATthe sum of five hundred dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to enable the Secretary of War to
carry out an agreement made and entered into at Torray’s Trading House in the State
of Texas, thirteenth
September eighteen hundred and forty eight, between R. S. Neighbors United States
Special Indian agent and Col. P. H. Bell on the one part and Jose Maria Tow-i-ash
and Had-i-hah Caddo Indians on the other part, to make reparation in money for the
killing of a Caddo boy by the volunteer troops in Texas in the summer of eighteen
hundred and forty eight.
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12/19/1848
Secretary
12/19/1848
Passed the Senate
December 19. 1848
Attest
Asbury Dickins–December 19. 1848
Attest
Secretary
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An act to authorize the Secretary of War to make reparation for the killing of a Caddo boy by volunteer troops in Texas
An act to authorize the Secretary of War to make reparation for the killing of a Caddo boy by volunteer troops in Texas
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HR Mil Affrs
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02/08/1849
Clerk
02/08/1849
In the House of Representatives
February 8. 1849
Resolved, that this bill pass
Attest
Tho. J CampbellFebruary 8. 1849
Resolved, that this bill pass
Attest
Clerk
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| 10 Feb 1849 Exd by | Mr Rusk S |
| "Hampton H. R. |
Partially Printed Document, 2 page(s), Volume 469, RG 46, Entry 427: Records of the United States Senate, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Bills and Resolutions Originating in the Senate, Senate Bills and Resolutions Upon Which Further Action Was Taken, 1847-1849, NAB,