Chapter LXXIII. *to Provide for the Payment of the Companies of Captains Bush, Price, and Suarez, for Military Services in Florida.* Feb. 14, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War One half of the pay and allo
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Chap. LXXIII.— An Act *to Provide for the Payment of the Companies of Captains Bush, Price, and Suarez, for Military Services in Florida.* Feb. 14, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War One half of the pay and allowances of mounted troops to be allowed to the companies of Captain Bush.cause to be paid one half of the pay and allowances of mounted troops to the following militia forces of the Territory of Florida, for the period of their respective service, as hereinafter specified, to wit:
Captain Bush’s company of mounted troops from the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, to the twenty fifth day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine; Captain Price’s company of mounted troops from the twentieth day of January, Captain Price.eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to the twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine: Captain Suarez’s company of Captain Suarez.mounted troops from the twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, to the twentieth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. 756 THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 74, 75, 77, 78, 83. 1853. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the muster-rolls according to Muster-rolls to be sworn to.which the above payments shall be made, shall be sworn to by the captain or senior surviving officer in Florida of each company, and approved by the Governor of that State. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That so much money as may be Appropriation.necessary for the purposes aforesaid be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 14, 1853.