Private Law 16–X

That the Third Auditor of the Treasury audit and adjust the claims of Francis Lasselle, and of the other officers, non-commissioned

Claims of volunteers to be audited, &c.

Act of Feb. 6, 1812, ch.21.

officers, musicians and privates, who enrolled themselves as a part of a quota of fifty thousand volunteers, under the act of February sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and elected Hubert Lacroix, captain of said company, and to allow to the said Francis Lasselle, aud to the other officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates so enrolled, and who were in the service of the United States under said enrolment, such further sum as they arc entitled to, by extending to them the provisions of the act of February sixth, eighteen hundred and twelve, authorizing the President of the United States to accept the services of fifty thousand volunteers, so that said company be on the same footing of equality with the volunteers of Ohio.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That the several sums, so found

Appropriation.

due, be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the claimants, if living, or to their representatives if dead.