Chapter 34. for the relief of Elizabeth Carson
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CHAP. 34.— An Act for the relief of Elizabeth Carson.Jan. 26, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Elizabeth Carson.Claim of, to be investigated by Quartermaster’s Department, and reported by Secretary of War to Congress. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be investigated by the Quartermaster’s Department of the United States Army the claim of Elizabeth Carson, of Bourbon County, State of Kentucky, for subsistence, use of jail, fuel, fire, care, and attention alleged to have been furnished by her to conscripts, deserters, and rebel prisoners confined in the jail of Bourbon County, Kentucky, by the military authorities of the United States, in the years eighteen hundred and sixty- two, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, eighteen hundred and sixty- four, and eighteen hundred and sixty -five; such investigation to extend to the status of the claimant, whether loyal or not, the value of the supplies furnished, the actual rental value of the property for the time it was occupied and used by United States authorities, the circumstances of the use of the jail and by whose authority or direction it was so used, and the reasons for the neglect to file her claim in the War Department; and when such investigation shall be completed the Secretary of War shall report the result thereof, with his recommendation thereon, to Congress, for its action in the premises.
Approved, January 26th, 1885.