Chapter LXXI. *for the Payment of Expenses incurred in the Suppression of Indian Hostilities in the State of California.* March 2, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the sum of four hundred Payment for suppression of Indian
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Chap. LXXI.— An Act *for the Payment of Expenses incurred in the Suppression of Indian Hostilities in the State of California.* March 2, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the sum of four hundred Payment for suppression of Indian hostilities in California.thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses incurred by the State of California, in the suppression of Indian hostilities therein, in the years eighteen hundred and fifty-four, fifty-five, fifty-six, fifty-eight, and fifty-nine, and the Secretary of the Treasury, when the said expenses of the State of California shall have been audited and allowed, shall be and hereby is authorized to pay the same in bonds of the United States authorized to be 1861, ch. 29. *Ante,* p. 129.issued by the act of February the eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Third Auditor of the Accounts of the State to be audited, for volunteers, supplies, &c.Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to audit the accounts of the said State of California for payments for the services of volunteers, and for supplies, transportation, and personal services, furnished or rendered to said volunteers in the Shasta expedition of eighteen hundred and fifty-four, in the Siskiyou expedition of eighteen hundred and fifty-five, in the Klamath and Humboldt expedition of eighteen hundred and fifty-five, in the San Bernardino expedition of eighteen hundred and fifty-five, in the Klamath expedition of eighteen hundred and fifty-six, in the Modoc, expedition of eighteen hundred and fifty-six, in the Tulare expedition of eighteen hundred and fifty-six, in the Klamath and Humboldt expedition of eighteen hundred fifty-eight and fifty-nine, and in the Pitt River expedition of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine: *Provided,* That no higher rate shall be allowed or paid for the services of said volunteers Pay to be no higher than in the regular armythan was paid for services in the same grade and for the same lime in the United States army serving in California, nor shall payment be made for the services of any such volunteers except for the time during which they 200 THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 71, 72. 1861.shall be shown by satisfactory evidence to have been engaged in actual service in the field: *And provided further,* That no allowance shall be Pay to no person in more than one capacity at same time.made for the services of any person in more than one capacity for the same time. And in auditing the said claims for supplies, transportation, and personal services, the same shall be computed at prices corresponding, as near as can be ascertained, to the rates paid for similar supplies and Rates of pay for supplies.transportation furnished or rendered to the United States army in the same country at the same time; and the Third Auditor, as to all principles not expressly settled by this act, shall be governed in auditing and settling said claims by the principles adopted in his report upon the claims of the Territories of Washington and Oregon, 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: *Provided,* That he be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed, Additional proof to be required in certain cases.whenever in his opinion the evidence in support of any claim for services, supplies, and transportation is not sufficient to establish such claim, or where he may have doubts as to the genuineness thereof, to require additional and satisfactory proof touching such claim, or the value of the services rendered or the supplies furnished, before reporting such claim for Expense of no expedition to be paid unless necessary.
Acceptance of this indemnity to discharge all claims.settlement and payment as herein directed: *And provided, further,* That no payment shall be made for the expenses of any expedition hereinbefore mentioned, if the Secretary of War shall be of opinion that there was not a necessity for calling out said troops: *Provided,* That the acceptance of the indemnity hereby provided shall operate as a final and complete discharge and satisfaction of all claims or matters hereinbefore referred to.
Approved, March 2, 1861.