Chapter CCXVI. for the relief of Lewis Rouse
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Chap. CCXVI.— An Act for the relief of Lewis Rouse. May 30, 1830. *Be it enacted, &c., * Payment for certain whiskey furnished to garrison. That the Third Auditor of the Treasury Depart" ment is hereby authorized to settle and adjust the claim of Lewis Rouse, on just and equitable principles, for two hundred and sixty-five gallons of whiskey, furnished for the use of the Garrison at Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, the twenty-third day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, in consequence of the failure of the contractor to furnish the liquor part of the rations to the troops at that post.
The sum found justly due him by the Third Auditor, under this act, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 30, 1830.