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Private Law 21–CVII
for the relief of Brevet Major Riley, and Lieutenants Brook and Seawright.
Approved March 3, 1831
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Brevet Major Riley, and Lieutenants Brook and Seawright.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the sum of two hundred and ten dollars, out
Payment for horses lost.
of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, to be paid to Brevet Major Bennet Riley, Lieutenant F. J. Brook, and Lieutenant J. D. Seawright, of the army of the United States, under the orders of the Secretary of War, for the loss of three horses, captured from them in an action with the Camanche and other Indians, on the Sante Fe trace, in the summer of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, while giving convoy to a caravan of traders from United States to the Mexican dominions, under the orders of the President of the United States.
Approved, .