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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · April 6, 1838 · Chapter LIII

Chapter LIII. *for the relief of Doctor David H

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Chap. LIII.— An Act *for the relief of Doctor David H. Maxwell.*April 6, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That the proper accounting officers of the treasury settle the claim of Doctor David H. MaxwellClaim for medical services to be settled. for services performed by him as physician and surgeon for a company of mounted rangers, under the command of Captain Williamson Dunn, and other companies of rangers, volunteer militia, and United States’ infantry, from the thirteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirteen, until the sixteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and fourteen, inclusive; and also his claim for medicines, furnished at his own cost, for said companies; also, any damages he may have sustained, by injury to his surgical instruments, when in said service; and allow him the same pay and emoluments he would have been entitled to had he been regularly commissioned a surgeon’s mate; deducting from the amount to be settled and ascertained, the pay he has heretofore received as a private mounted ranger; as also the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars repaid him by the officers and men of said Captain Dunn’s company.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the money so found to beAppropriation. his due, be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 6, 1838.
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