Private Law 27–V

That the Secretary of War cause to be made up

Payment for services in North Carolina militia.

a pay-roll for the services of Cornelius Wilson and James Canter, privates in the company of volunteer militia from the state of North Carolina, commanded by Captain William W. Pedru or J. J. Bryan, raised by a requisition of General Winfield Scott, on the Governor of said state of North Carolina, dated April eleventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to aid him in removing the Cherokee Indians west of the Mississippi, allowing them the same pay, pro rata, which was allowed the other privates of said company, from the time they arrived at the place of rendezvous to the time of their rejection for insufficiency of health, including pay and rations for travel each way, to and from the place of rendezvous, and certify the same to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is hereby required and directed to pay the amount thereof to the said Cornelius Wilson and James Canter, or to their respective legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, it being for services rendered by said Cornelius Wilson and James Canter in a company of North Carolina volunteer militia called out to aid in the removal of the Cherokee Indians west of the Mississippi.