Chapter 405. to authorize the Secretary of War to issue ordnance and ordnance stores to the State of Washington in payment for ordnance and ordnance stores borrowed by the State of Oregon of said State whilst a Territory during the Nez Percé Indian war of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eighteen hundred a
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CHAP. 405.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to issue ordnance and ordnance stores to the State of Washington in payment for ordnance and ordnance stores borrowed by the State of Oregon of said State whilst a Territory during the Nez Percé Indian war of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for other purposes.June 10, 1890. Preamble.Whereas during the Nez Perce Indian war of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight the State of Oregon, in order to arm and equip the militia and volunteers of said State called into service by the governor of said State to suppress Indian hostilities, borrowed of the Territory of Washington three hundred and twenty breech-loading Springfield rifles, caliber fifty, model of eighteen hundred and sixty-six; two hundred and sixty-two breech-loading Springfield rifles, caliber fifty, model of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; five hundred and eighty-two screwdrivers; forty-seven thousand four hundred and forty-five ball cartridges, caliber fifty; and thirty-one arm-chests; and Whereas a large portion of said ordnance and ordnance stores have been lost and rendered useless in service; and Whereas said State has not arms and accouterments nor credit on her ordnance account sufficient to return said arms, and so forth, borrowed:
Therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Ordnance, etc., to be Issued to Washington, to replace ordnance, etc., loaned to Oregon., That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, directed to cause to be issued to the State of Washington,in full payment and liquidation of ordnance and ordnance stores borrowed by said State of Oregon of said State whilst a *Post*, p. 403.Territory, and lost or rendered useless in service, ordnance and ordnance stores of the value of twelve thousand three hundred and Acceptance, to discharge Oregon from liability.ninety-eight dollars and fifty-five cents, and the acceptance by the State of Washington of the ordnance and ordnance stores herein authorized to be issued shall be an absolute discharge of the State of Oregon from any and all liability for said borrowed arms and accouterments.
Approved, June 10, 1890.