Chapter 282. to authorize the Secretary of War to credit the Territory of Dakota with certain sums for ordnance and ordnance stores issued to said Territory, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 282.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to credit the Territory of Dakota with certain sums for ordnance and ordnance stores issued to said Territory, and for other purposes.Feb. 28, 1887. Whereas, it appears from the records of the Ordnance Bureau of thePreamble. War Department that the Territory of Dakota stands charged with the sum of twenty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars for ordnance and ordnance stores issued to said Territory during the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, under the provisions of the act of Vol. 14, p. 2G.Congress approved April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled “An act to provide arms and ammunition for the defense of the inhabitants of Dakota Territory ”, all of said ordnance and ordnance stores having been drawn by the Territory of Dakota and used for the purpose of aiding the General Government in the protection of the borders of said Territory against Indian invasions and depredations; and Whereas said ordnance was issued to the inhabitants of said Territory as in said act directed, and all of the same has been lost and rendered useless in the service:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Dakota to be credited amount due on ordnance account., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to cause the Territory of Dakota to be credited on its ordnance account with the sum of twenty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars, upon the delivery to the United States, at such place as the Secretary of War may direct, of all such arms and other ordnance stores remaining in the custody of said Territory of the issues thereof under said act.
Approved, February 28, 1887.