Chapter VIII. to indemnify certain Citizens of the United States, residing in the State of Delaware, for Expenses incurred by them in Defence of the United States
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Chap. VIII.— An Act to indemnify certain Citizens of the United States, residing in the State of Delaware, for Expenses incurred by them in Defence of the United States.January 7, 1863. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of theCertain citizens of Delaware to be indemnified for expenses in defence of the United States. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the Farmers’ Bank of the State of Delaware, at Dover, or the duly authorized agent thereof, any amount not exceeding the sum of thirteen hundred and seventy-eight dollars, borrowed of said bank by Alden B.
Richardson and others, citizens of the State of Delaware, and by them expended for the enrolling, subsisting, clothing, and equipping of company D of the first regiment of Delaware volunteers employed in aiding to suppress the present insurrection against the United States; and also to the Bank of Smyrna, at Smyrna, Delaware, or the duly authorized agent thereof, an amount not exceeding the sum of thirteen hundred and seventy-eight dollars, borrowed of said last-mentioned bank by George W.
Cummins and others, citizens of said State of Delaware, and by them expended for the enrolling, subsisting, clothing, and equipping company H of said first regiment of Delaware volunteers employed in said service as aforesaid: *Provided,* ThatOnly expenses properly made to be paid. said Secretary shall pay only so much of the expenditures aforesaid as, upon examination, he shall be satisfied were properly made. Approved, January 7, 1863.