Private Law 27–LXV

That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be audited,

Accounts to be settled, &c.

settled, and paid, by the proper officers of his department, to Robert G. Ford, the amount of the accounts in his favor, and in favor of Robert Williams, for provender furnished General Nelson’s brigade of mounted volunteer militia in the service of the United States in the year one thousand eight hundred thirty-seven, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, under the same rules and on the same terms as if the original accounts and duplicates were produced; provided the claimant give security to the United States, indemnifying them against loss arising from the production of the original papers, should they ever be found, before receiving the money authorized to be paid by this act.