Chapter XXVII. to provide for the Payment of the Claims of the State of Maine for Expenses incurred by that State in organizing a Regiment of Volunteers for the Mexican War
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Chap. XXVII.— An Act to provide for the Payment of the Claims of the State of Maine for Expenses incurred by that State in organizing a Regiment of Volunteers for the Mexican War.Feb. 9, 1859. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the accounts of the StateAccounts of the State of Maine to be audited and settled. of Maine for expenses incurred by that State in organizing a regiment of volunteers for the Mexican war, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-six, upon the requisition of the President of the United States, shall be audited and settled by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department, pursuant to the provisions of an act approved June second, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to “refund money for expenses incurred,1848, ch. 60.vol. ix. p. 236. subsistence, or transportation furnished for the use of volunteers during the present war, upon being mustered into the service of the United States,” in the same manner in all respects as if the said regiment had been mustered and received in the service of the United States; and the amount found to be due to the State of Maine shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 9, 1859.