Volume 6
Private Law 27–CLII
for the relief of the legal representatives of John Scott.
Approved August 11, 1842
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of the legal representatives of John Scott.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That fifteen hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
Payment for damages to property by emigrating Indians.
appropriated, in full payment to the legal representatives of John Scott, deceased, for damages sustained by him in wood, timber, fences and houses, on his premises in the neighborhood of Montgomery, Alabama, in consequence of the occupation of the same by a large body of emigrating Creek Indians, while in charge of United States troops in the months of January, February, and March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, under the superintendence of Captain John Page, and by orders of General Thomas S. Jesup.
Approved, .