Chapter 89. to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be examined certain vouchers filed, or to he filed, by the State of Missouri, or her agent or agents, for, sums claimed to lie due from the Government of the United States on account of payments made by said State since April twenty-second, eigh
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CHAP. 89.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be examined certain vouchers filed, or to he filed, by the State of Missouri, or her agent or agents, for, sums claimed to lie due from the Government of the United States on account of payments made by said State since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to the officers and enlisted men of her militia forces for military services rendered to the United States in the suppression of the rebellion, as evidenced by the proper payrolls heretofore filed with, examined, and accepted by the Government of the United States, and to report to Congress.April 17, 1890.
Whereas it is claimed that there is due from the Government of thePreamble. United States to the State of Missouri certain sums on account of payments made by said State since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to the officers and enlisted men of her militia forces, for military services rendered to the United States in the suppression of the rebellion, as evidenced by the proper payrolls of said military organization, bearing the names of such officers and enlisted men, and which said payrolls are now on file in the office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury, and have heretofore been examined, accepted, and paid upon by the Government of the United States:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Missouri.Claim of, for military expenditures in suppressing rebellion.Secretary of Treasury to examine and report on vouchers., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to cause the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department, to examine the vouchers now on file, or which may hereafter be filed by the State of Missouri, or her agent or agents, for moneys expended by the said State of Missouri since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two (not to exceed the sum of one thousand dollars in the aggregate), for military services rendered to the United States in the suppression of the rebellion by the officers and enlisted men of the militia forces of the State of Missouri, whose names are borne on the proper pay rolls of their respective military organizations, and which said rolls are now on file in the office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury and have heretofore been examined, accepted, and paid upon by the Government of the United States, and to report to Congress, at the earliest practicable day, the result of such examination and the amount, if anything, which appears to be due to said State on account of the expenditures so made.
Approved, April 17, 1890.