Chapter CXXX. for the Relief of Mrs
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Chap. CXXX.— An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Helen Mackay, Administratrix of Lieutenant-Colonel Æneas Mackay, late a Deputy Quarter-master in the United States Army. Feb. 28, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the proper accounting officers of the treasury, in settling the accounts of Lieutenant-ColonelSettlement of accounts of Lt. Col. Æneas Mackay. Æneas Mackay, deceased, deputy quarter-master general in the United States army, be authorized and directed to allow, as a credit for twentyfive thousand dollars, the receipt of Captain William D.
McKissack for that amount, dated the first day of May, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, as well as the receipt of the said Captain William D. McKissack for a similar amount, dated the fourteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-seven. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of the TreasuryPayment of balance to Mrs. Mackay. pay to Mrs. Helen Mackay, administratrix of Colonel Æneas Mackay, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, 858 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 131, 132, 148, 149. 1855. whatever balance may be found to be due to her late husband, upon a final settlement of his accounts, in the manner directed by the first section of this act. Approved, February 28, 1855.