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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 12 STAT. · July 27, 1861 · Chapter XXI

Chapter XXI. *to indemnify the States for Expenses incurred by them in Defence of the United States.* July 27, 1861. *Post*, p. 615.*Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the States to be indemnified for expenses in

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Chap. XXI.— An Act *to indemnify the States for Expenses incurred by them in Defence of the United States.* July 27, 1861. *Post*, p. 615.*Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the States to be indemnified for expenses incurred in defence of the United States.Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the Governor of any State, or to his duly authorized agents, the costs, charges, and expenses properly incurred by such State for enrolling, subsisting, clothing, supplying, arming, equiping, paying, and transporting its troops employed in aiding to suppress the present insurrection against the United States, to be settled upon proper vouchers, to be filed and passed upon by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury.
Approved, July 27, 1861. Chapter XXII: making additional Appropriations for the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and Appropriations of Arrearages for the Year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 11 Stat. 276 1861-07-27 Chapter XXII Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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