Chapter CLVI. for the relief of William Crawford, Frederick Bates, William Garrard, and Thomas B
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Chap. CLVI.— An Act for the relief of William Crawford, Frederick Bates, William Garrard, and Thomas B. Robertson. April 29, 1816. *Be it enacted, &c., * Claim of William Crawford to be settled. That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and required to allow and pay to William Crawford, commissioner of land claims east of Pearl river, the sum of five hundred dollars, for carrying his report upon land claims to the general land office at the city of Washington.
Sec. 2. Of Frederick Bates. *And be it further enacted, *That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and required to allow and pay to Frederick Bates, recorder of land titles for the territory of Missouri, the sum of five hundred dollars, for carrying his report upon land claims to the general land office at the city of Washington. Sec. 3. Of William Garrard. *And be it further enacted, *That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and required to allow and pay to William Garrard, commissioner of land claims for the western district of the State of Louisiana, and to Thomas Bolling Robertson,Of Thomas B.
Robertson. commissioner of land claims for the eastern district of Louisiana, the sum of five hundred dollars each, for carrying the reports upon land claims to the general land office at the city of Washington. Sec. 4. Appropriation. *And be it further enacted, *That a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the pur- FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 157, 158, 161. 1816. 175 poses aforesaid, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 29, 1816.