Feb. 19, 1849.
Chap. LIV. — An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to make Reparation for the killing of a Caddo
Boy by Volunteer Troops in Texas.
$500 appropriated to make reparation for the killing of a Caddo boy by certain volunteers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the 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 Colonel P. H. Bell, on the
one part, and José 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.
Approved, February 19, 1849.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Private Acts, 30th Cong., 2nd sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 762