Chapter LXIX. to Reimburse to the Common Council of New York City, Expenditures made for the First Regiment of New York Volunteers
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Chap. LXIX.— An Act to Reimburse to the Common Council of New York City, Expenditures made for the First Regiment of New York Volunteers. June 29, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Expenditures made by city of New York for first regiment of New York volunteers to be paid.Act of June 2, 1848, ch. 60. That the Secretary of War, in the settlement and adjustment (under the act of Congress of June second, eighteen hundred and forty-eight,) of the claims of the Common Council of New York, for expenditures made in organizing, transporting, clothing, and subsisting the first regiment of New York Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Ward B.
Burnett, prior to the mustering of said regiment into the service of the United States, shall be authorized and required to allow such of those claims as may be supported by satisfactory vouchers, showing that such expenditure had been fairly made, and was necessary and proper for the service, notwithstanding that such vouchers may be Proviso.informal and defective for want of particularity: *Provided*, That the amount allowed shall not exceed three thousand six hundred and seventy-two dollars and ninety cents.
Approved, June 29, 1854.