Chapter LXXIII. making an appropriation for the payment of horses lost by the Missouri volunteers in the Florida war
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Chap. LXXIII.— An Act making an appropriation for the payment of horses lost by the Missouri volunteers in the Florida war.June 15, 1844. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there is hereby Appropriation. appropriated the sum of thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars to be expended out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the purpose of paying the Missouri volunteers the value of their horses and equipage lost or cast away at sea, or which perished or died in consequence of suffering at sea in the voyage from New Orleans to Tampa Bay, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven; and also for such horses as were turned over to the Government by the order of the commanding officer.
The value of all horses to be ascertained, and Value of horses, and settlement of claims, to be made according to act of March 3, 1839, ch. 93. the settlement of all claims to be made according to the provisions of an act entitled “An act making Act of March 3, 1839, ch. 94. Acts relating to claims for horses, &c., revived. appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine” approved third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, or so much of said act as provides for paying the value of horses and equipage of the Tennessee and other volunteers who have at any time been in the service of the United States in the Territory of Florida: and according to the provisions of the fourth section of an act entitled “An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine,” approved third of March eighteen hundred and thirty-nine: and the said acts, or so much of them as relates to or has a bearing upon those claims as aforesaid, and other existing claims be and the same are hereby revived and continued in force for two years from the passage of this act.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That an act entitled “An act to Act of Jan. 18, 1837, ch. 5, revived. provide for the payment of horses and other property lost in the military service of the United States,” approved on the eighteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and all other acts or parts of acts relating to the same subject be, and the same are hereby, continued in force for the period of two years from and after the limitation provided for by an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty-three:
Act of March 3, 1843, ch. 103. Proviso.*Provided,* That the foregoing act shall not extend to cases which may arise in any future war. Approved, June 15, 1844.