Chapter 241. to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to examine and report to Congress the amount of all claims of the States of Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska, California, Kansas, and Nevada, and the Territories of Washington and Idaho, for money expended and indebtedness assumed by said States and Territ
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CHAP. 241.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to examine and report to Congress the amount of all claims of the States of Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska, California, Kansas, and Nevada, and the Territories of Washington and Idaho, for money expended and indebtedness assumed by said States and Territories in repelling invasions and suppressing Indian hostilities, and for other purposes.June 27, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Examination of claims of States of Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska, California, Kansas, Nevada, and Washington and Idaho Territories for suppression of Indian hostilities, etc., authorized.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed, with the aid and assistance of the Secretary of War, to cause to be examined and investigated all the claims of the States of Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska, California, Kansas, and Nevada, and the Territories of Washington and Idaho, against the United States of America for moneys alleged to have, been expended and for indebtedness alleged to have been assumed by said States and Territories in organizing, arming, equipping, supplying, clothing, subsisting, transporting, and paying the volunteer and military forces of said States and Territories called into active service by the proper authorities thereof, between the fifteenth day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the date of this act, to repel invasions and Indian hostilities in said States and Territories and upon 112 their borders, including all proper expenses necessarily incurred by said States and Territories on account of said forces baring been so called into active service as aforesaid, and also all proper claims paid or assumed by said States and Territories for horses and equipments actually lost by said forces while in the line of duty in active service (excepting and excluding therefrom any claim said State of Oregon may have for money expended and indebtedness assumed or incurred in suppressing Modoc Indian hostilities during the Modoc Indian war, and in defending that State from invasion by said Indians during the years eighteen hundred and seventy-two and eighteen hundred and seventy-three, which were submitted to and passed upon, by either approval or rejection, by Inspector-General James A.
Hardie, United States Army). Said accounts for and on behalf of said State of Texas shall be confined to chums arising since the twentieth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and shall include the necessary expenses of defense against Mexican raids or invasions as well as those for defense against Indian hostilities, and for and on behalf of said Territories of Idaho and Washington for said claims arising in the years eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.
Sec. 2. That no higher rate shall be allowed fur the services of saidAllowances for service and all expenditures rated. forces, and for supplies, transportation, and other proper expenses, than was allowed and paid by the United States for similar services in the same grade and for the same time in the United States Army serving in said States and Territories, and for similar supplies, transportation, and other proper expenses during the same time furnished the United States Army in the same country; and no allowance shall be made for services of such forces except for the time during which they were engaged in active service in the field; and no allowance shall be made for the services of any person in more than one capacity at the same time, or for any expenditures for which the Secretary of War shall decide there was no necessity at the time and under all the circumstances.
Sec. 3. That to enable the said officers to make the examination andVouchers, evidence, etc., to be filed with Secretary of Treasury. investigation herein authorized the governors of the said States and Territories, respectively, or their duly-authorized agents, shall file with the Secretary of the Treasury abstracts and statements of all such claims by said States and Territories, showing the amounts of such expenditures and indebtedness and the purposes for which they were made, and accompanied with proper vouchers and evidence.
Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, at the earliest practicableReport to be made to Congress. time, report to Congress for final action the results of such examination and investigation, and the amount or amounts found to have been properly expended for the purposes aforesaid: *Provided*, That whenever the examination of the accounts of any State or Territory hereinbefore mentioned shall have been completed, the same shall be separately reported to Congress, without reference to the final examination of the accounts of any other State or Territory.
Sec. 5. That any military services performed and expenditures on account thereof incurred during the Territorial organization of Nevada, and paid for or assumed by either said Territory or said State of Nevada, shall be also included, and examined and reported to Congress in the same manner as like services and expenditures shall be examined and reported for the State of Nevada. Approved, June 27, 1882.