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Volume 6

Private Law 16–CCCVI

for the relief of Joseph Bogy.

Approved July 2, 1836

Statutory text

An Act

for the relief of Joseph Bogy.

Be it enacted, &c.,

That the Secretary of War shall cause to be paid to Joseph Bogy, of the state of Missouri, six thousand dollars, out of

Payment for property carried away by Choctaws.

any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full satisfaction for his merchandise and property seized, taken, and carried away or destroyed by the Choctaw Indians, in the then territory of Louisiana, in the year eighteen hundred and seven.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War shall

Treasury to be reimbursed from annuity due to them.

cause the treasury of the United States to be reimbursed said sum of money, by ordering the person whose duty it may be to pay the annuity due or to become due, to the Choctaw Indians, to retain and deduct the same out of said annuity.

Approved, .

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