Chapter CXVI. *to enable the accounting Officers of the Treasury to settle the Claim of the State of Kansas.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the proper accountingClaim of the State of Kansas to be allowed to an
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Chap. CXVI.— An Act *to enable the accounting Officers of the Treasury to settle the Claim of the State of Kansas.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the proper accountingClaim of the State of Kansas to be allowed to an amount not exceeding, &c.1864, ch. 21.Vol. xii. p. 276.Secondary evidence to be received in lieu of original vouchers. officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to receive secondary evidence, in lieu of the original vouchers, in support of a claim for expenses incurred by the State of Kansas, provision for reimbursement of which was made by the “Act to indemnify the states for expenses incurred by them in defence of the United States,” approved July twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, said original vouchers having been destroyed by fire at the late massacre in Lawrence, Kansas:
Provided, That, in the settlement of the above-mentioned claim, there shall not be allowed to the State of Kansas a sum exceeding the sum of twelve thousand three hundred fifty-one dollars and four cents ($12,–351.04). Approved, March 3, 1865.