Chapter CXIX. for the relief of a company of rangers, under the command of Captain James Bigger
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Chap. CXIX.— An Act for the relief of a company of rangers, under the command of Captain James Bigger. May 20, 1826. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the accounting officers in the treasury departmentAllowed full pay for certain periods. pay to the company of rangers which entered into the service of the United States, for one year, in the month of May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, their full pay as mounted rangers, from the first to the twenty-fourth of March, eighteen hundred and fourteen, inclusive, deducting therefrom what they have heretofore received, as dismounted rangers, for that period; also the full pay allowed by law for mounted rangers, for the first and second days of June, eighteen hundred and fourteen.
Sec. 2. To be paid as dismounted rangers from 25th March to 15th May 1814.Proviso. *And he it further enacted, *That said company be paid, as aforesaid, as dismounted rangers, from the twenty-fifth of March to the fifteenth of May, eighteen hundred and fourteen, inclusive; the said payments to be made out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided, however,* That this act shall not be so construed, as to entitle any officer, non-commissioned officer, or private, of said company, to pay as aforesaid, from and after the twenty-fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and fourteen, who did not, subsequent to that time, perform duty in said company.
Approved, May 20, 1826.