Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 24.
(Report No. 507.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
April 26, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. McIlvaine, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported the following joint resolution:
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Providing for the payment of certain deficiencies to the Shawnee Indians.

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10 Resolved by the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is here-
by, authorized and required to pay any balance that may
be due the Shawnee Indians who served in the Florida
war, under an order of the War Department, dated July
twenty-second, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, agree-
ably to the terms of said order, to the chiefs of said tribe
of Indians, out of any money in the treasury not other-
wise appropriated.

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H. R 24
Joint Resolution
Providing for the payment of certain deficiencies to the Shawnee Indians.