Chapter LXX. *to provide for the Payment of Expenses incurred by the Territories of Washington and Oregon in the Suppression of Indian Hostilities therein, in the Years eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six.* March 2, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
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Chap. LXX.— An Act *to provide for the Payment of Expenses incurred by the Territories of Washington and Oregon in the Suppression of Indian Hostilities therein, in the Years eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six.* March 2, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums, or so Expenses of Indian hostilities in Washington and Oregon.much thereof as may be necessary, be and they are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses incurred in the Territories of Washington and Oregon, in the suppression of Indian hostilities therein in the years eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six.
Pay of volunteers. For the payment of volunteers, embracing the first, second, and ninth Oregon regiments, and the three companies of minute-men, numbered sixty, sixty-one, and sixty-two, and the first and second Washington regiments and promiscuous companies, including the companies of Captain Strong and Captain Hays, four hundred thousand dollars, after deducting stoppages as ascertained by the Third Auditor of the Treasury in his report of the seventh of February, eighteen hundred and sixty, made in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives passed the eighth of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine; said claims to be examined and audited by the Third Auditor of the Treasury, who shall allow to said volunteers the same pay and allowances as were paid to officers and soldiers of equal grade at that period in the United States Payment to be made only for those in actual service.army serving in that country: *Provided,* That payment shall only be made to such of the above-named companies as shall be shown by satisfactory proof to have been engaged in actual service in the field for the period and in the manner claimed.
Pay for maintenance of volunteers. For the payment of claims for services, supplies, transportation, and so forth, incurred in the maintenance of said volunteers, two million four hundred thousand dollars, to be paid upon the principle, and agreeably to the rates for services, supplies, transportation, and so forth, allowed and reported by the Third Auditor of the Treasury in his aforesaid report of the seventh of February, eighteen hundred and sixty: *Provided,* Proviso.That said Auditor be and he hereby is authorized and directed to receive additional evidence as to the amount or value of supplies, transportation, and personal services, and to correct errors in his former report touching the same; and in cases where supplies were furnished at points in either of said Territories, where similar supplies were not furnished for the THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 70, 71. 1861. 199regular army during the hostilities in which said volunteers were engaged, he shall allow for such supplies the prices paid for similar supplies for the regular army at the most convenient point where army supplies were furnished during said time, adding thereto the cost of transportation to the place whore such supplies were furnished to said Proviso. Payments to lie in full of claims.volunteers: *And provided, further,* That no compensation shall be made for the services of any person in more than one capacity for the same time; and all payments made in pursuance of this act shall be received in full satisfaction and discharge of the claims upon which they are made.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That all claims for horses or other Loss of horses.property lost or destroyed in said service shall be settled according to the aet approved the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, providing 1849, ch. 129. Vol. ix. p. 414.for payment for horses or other property lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That there be paid to Robert J. Payment to Robert J. Atkinson.Atkinson, Third Auditor of the Treasury, for the duties heretofore performed by him in the investigation of said claims, the sum of one thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That for the payment of claims provided for in this act, the Secretary of the Treasury may, if he deem it Bonds may be issued for the payment of these claims.expedient, issue to the claimants, or their legal representatives, bonds of the United States of a denomination not less than fifty dollars, redeemable in twenty years, and bearing interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, with coupons attached, and payable annually or semi-annually at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Approved, March 2, 1861.