Volume 6
Private Law 16–CXXIX
for the relief of Joshua Newsom, Peter Crook, and James Rabb.
Approved May 15, 1820
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Joshua Newsom, Peter Crook, and James Rabb.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the proper accounting officer of the treasury
Claim for horses impressed to be settled.
department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claims of Joshua Newsom and of Peter Crook, for two horses each, and of James Rabb, for seven horses, alleged to have been impressed
Proviso,
into the public service in the Seminole war: Provided, That such impressment, and the value of said horses when impressed, be satisfactorily proved; that said horses were not returned to their owners; and that any compensation which may have been allowed and paid for the service of said horses, after the time of their impressment, be deducted.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when ascertained as aforesaid, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .