Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

ThirtiethCongress
FirstSession

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3 Congress of the United States
Resolved By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
CONGRESS ASSEMBLED,

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14 That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized
and required, to cause to be paid out of any unexpended ap-
propriations for the prosecution of the War between the United
States of America and the Republic of Mexico, the regiment
of Texas mounted troops, which was mustered into the service
of the United States for six months, under the requisition of
Col. Curtis, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-seven,
and discharged before joining the army, the pay, ând^ ^(ûsual^)^ al-
lowances ôf mounted men^ ^(^ and travelling expenses ^)^ from the time the several
companies thereof arrived at San Antonio, the place of ren-
dezvous, until they were mustered out of service ând the usual &c^; and the

companies of Captains Smith and Hill until they refused to be mustered out of service, or were disbanded by their respective captains; and also that he cause to be paid to the said regiment the full value of all horses, which he shall be satisfied, were lost by them for want of forage during the periods herein specified: Provided, That nothing in the act approved second march eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled “An act to amend an act, to provide for the payment of horses and other property lost

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and destroyed in the military service of the United States approved eighteenth January eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, “shall be construed to revive the proviso to the second section of the act approved the fifteenth of June eighteen hundred and forty four, entitled “an act making an appropriation for the payment of horses lost by the Missouri Volunteers in the Florida war.”

Provided also, That all horses belonging to volunteers, which were lost in the Gulf of Mexico, since the thirteenth May eighteen hundred and forty-six, by being thrown overboard or otherwise, shall be paid for in the same manner as is provided for the payment of other lost horses, in this act.

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05/09/1848
Passed the House of Representatives
May 9^th AD 1848 .
Attest
Tho. J Campbell
Clerk

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Mil. Affairs 16

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H R. 16.
Joint Resolution Providing for payment of the Regiment of Texas mounted troops, called into the service of the United States und[er] the requisition of Colô Curtis in the ^year^ eighteen hundred forty-seven, and for other purposes.

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06/14/1848
In the Senate of the United States
June 14, 1848
Resolved, That this Joint Resolution pass, with amendments.
Attest
Asbury Dickins
Secretary.

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read 1 & 2 & to military

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Agreed to

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June 15, Hampton.

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In Senate of the United States,
June 14, 1848

Resolved, That the^Joint Resolution^ Bill from the House of Representatives entitled“Joint Resolution for the payment of the Regiment of Texas mounted troops, called into the service of the United States under the requisition of Colô Curtis in the year eighteen hundred and forty seven, and for other purposes,”, do pass, with the following

Amendments:

Line 11. Strike out the word “usual,” and insert and

Line 12. Strike out the words “and travelling expenses,” and insert of mounted men

Line 14. After the word “service,” insert: and the usual pay and travelling allowances from the time they left their homes until they reached San Antonio and from the places where they were mustered out of service until they reached their homes.

Attest
Asbury Dickins,
Secretary.

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H. R. 16.
Amendments.