Chapter LXIII. *for the relief of William G
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Chap. LXIII.— An Act *for the relief of William G. Sanders.*March 1, 1843. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,Payment for property destroyed. authorized to pay to William G. Sanders nine hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount allowed for a store-house, a dwelling-house, and one other house, owned by him, and destroyed the twenty-first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, by order of Captain F.
S. Belton, of the second artillery, United States army, he being then commander at Fort Brooke, Florida, to destroy the cover of the enemy in approaching the fort, as well as to prevent the said three buildings being occupied and burned by the hostile Indians in the vicinity of the fort, with a view of setting on fire the block-houses and other defences. Approved, March 1, 1843.