Chapter CVI. making Appropriations to Defray the Expenses of the Cayuse War
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Chap. CVI.— An Act making Appropriations to Defray the Expenses of the Cayuse War. July 27, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriation of $75,000 to pay the expense of the Cayuse War incurred in years 1847, 1848. That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the further sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, to pay the actual and necessary expenses incurred by the Provisional Government of Oregon in defending the people of the said Territory from the attacks and hostilities of the Cayuse Indians, in the years eighteen hundred and forty-seven and eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and for such allowancesCommissioner’s fees. for the expenses of adjusting the claims on that account as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem proper, not exceeding five dollars per day to each commissioner; and that the Secretary of the Treasury pay out ofMode of paying the money. said appropriation so much thereof as may be necessary to liquidate said claims according to the reports of the commissioners heretofore appointed for ascertaining said amounts and of the Governor of said Territory, that have been communicated to Congress.
And no claims shall hereafter beThe time wherein claims are to be allowed. allowed on account of this war which are not presented at the Treasury Department of the United States within the next fiscal year. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That all of said claims and accountsPlace and manner of adjusting said claims.Awards may be reexamined and reduced. not heretofore adjusted, shall be settled and adjusted at such place and in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby empowered to reexamine any award that has been or may be made of said claims, and to reduce the amount, if, in his judgment, founded on proof, it should be too much. Approved, July 27, 1854.