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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. If. Ch. 192,194. 1842.
Statute II.Aug. 23,1842.[Obsolete.]
Proviso, onlysuch as havebeen called intoservice by theWar Dep’t.
All otherclaims growingout of such ser-vice to be re-jected.
Sec. of Warto direct thepayment, pro-vided they donot exceed thesums named.
Appropriation.
Statute II.Aug. 23, 1842.
Lands selectedsubject to thesame rules as16th sections.
Chap. CXCII.— An Act for the payment of Florida militia called into service in
the years eighteen hundred and thirty-nine and eighteen hundred and forty.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accountingofficers of the War Department be, and they are hereby, directed toexamine and adjust the claims for pay of Lieutenant Colonel Bailey andstaff, Major Bailey and staff, the officers of the quartermaster’s depart-ment, and the companies of Captains Grigsby, Hagan, Mclvers, Lang-ford, Hall, Burney, and Bailey, all of the Florida militia, called intoservice in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-nine and eighteen hun-dred and forty, as if they had been regularly called out and mustered:Provided, That none of the troops herein specified shall be paid butsuch as the Secretary of War may consider to have been called intoservice under authority from said Department ; and that no paymentshall be made to any of the officers but such as were in proper propor-tion to the number of men in service, according to the existing laws,and for none of the supplies beyond the proportion, or not of the de-scription, authorized by existing laws and regulations; and that the saidaccounting officers be further directed to settle and adjust all claimsgrowing out of said service in the quartermaster’s department, the sub-sistence department, for ordnance supplies, and supplies of the medicaldepartment and private physicians.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War beauthorized to direct the payment of the accounts so settled and adjustedby the said accounting officers, provided the whole amount of pay shallnot exceed the sum of seventy thousand six hundred and eighteen dol-lars and six cents; for the quartermaster’s department, shall not exceedthe sum of fifty-six thousand dollars ; for subsistence shall not exceedthirty-two thousand nine hundred and twenty-two dollars and ninety-sixcents; for ordnance supplies, shall not exceed one thousand seven hun-dred and one dollars and eighteen cents; and for private physicians andmedicine, shall not exceed five thousand dollars; and that, for the pay-ments aforesaid, a sum not exceeding one hundred and sixty-six thou-sand two hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty cents be, and thesame is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury nototherwise appropriated.
Approved, August 23, 1842.
Chap. CXCIV.— An Act to authorize the selection of school lands in lieu of thosegranted to the half-breeds of the Sac and Fox Indians. ( a )
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the county commis-sioners of the county of Lee, in the Territory of Iowa, be, and they arehereby, authorized to select, of any of the public lands of the UnitedStates subject to private entry within the Iowa Territory, one sectionfor each entire township of land in the “ half-breed tract,” in said coun-ty, and a proportional quantity for each fractional township in said tract,under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretaryof the Treasury ; which land when selected, shall be subject to the samerules and regulations, respecting school lands, as the sixteenth sectionsin all the townships of the public lands are subject.
Approved, August 23, 1842.
(a) Acts relating to Iowa, July 12, 1838, ch. 96.