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Private Law 27–CLXVII
for the relief of the legal representatives of Richard T. Ranks, of the state of Arkansas.
Approved August 11, 1842
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of the legal representatives of Richard T. Ranks, of the state of Arkansas.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the proper accounting officers be, and they hereby are, directed to pay to Richard T. Banks, of the state of Arkansas,
Payment for losses sustained in consequence of a contract.
the sum of three thousand two hundred and six dollars and nine cents, to remunerate him for the actual losses he sustained in consequence of three contracts he made with the Government to supply provisions for the use of Indians expected to emigrate from the eastern to the western side of the river Mississippi, agreeably to treaty stipulations between them and the United States, but who failed to emigrate.
TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 168, 169, 170, 171. 1842.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the said sum of money be
Appropriation.
paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .