Chapter CLXII. for the Relief of Langtry and Jenkins
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Chap. CLXII.— An Act for the Relief of Langtry and Jenkins. Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Langtry & Jenkins to be paid S 1,443.65, for damages sustained by them in consequence of a violation of contract by the agents of the government. That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Langtry and Jenkins, of the State of Tennessee, or their legal representatives, the sum of one thousand four hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty-five cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; it being for damage sustained by them in consequence of the violation of a contract on the part of the government agents, in refusing to receive three thousand pairs of shoes contracted to be received at the Cherokee Agency in the summer of eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, for the use of poor and destitute Cherokees, to equip them for their removal west.
Approved, August 8, 1846.