Chapter CI. for the relief of James Morrison
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Chap. CI.— An Act for the relief of James Morrison. March 3, 1823. *Be it enacted, &c., * 10,000 dollars to be allowed to him. That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to allow James Morrison, late Deputy Quartermaster-General, in the settlement of his accounts, the sum of ten thousand dollars, which was advanced by Thomas II. Pindall, an Assistant Deputy Quartermaster-General, under the said Morrison, to Thomas Buford, late Deputy Commissary-General: *Provided,* That the said James Morrison shall first assign and transfer to the United States all his right and claim to the moneys mentioned in a certain receipt signed by said Thomas Buford to said James Morrison, bearing date the twenty-first day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve.
But, if the said James Morrison, on the final settlement of his accounts with the treasury department, should not be found indebted to the United States in the amount of the sum herein allowed him, in that event, the said sura, or so much thereof as SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 102, 103. 1823. 289 shall be found due the said Morrison, on such final settlement, shall be paid to him out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1823.