Chapter CLXXXVI. for the Relief of James Erwin, of Arkansas, and others
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Chap. CLXXXVI.— An Act for the Relief of James Erwin, of Arkansas, and others. Aug. 10, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Secretary of War authorized to allow and pay James Erwin for losses sustained on a contract. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to investigate, audit, allow, and pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James Irwin, of Arkansas, a fair and full remuneration for the actual losses he sustained in consequence of a contract he made with the United States in September, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, to supply provisions and transportation for the use of the Creek Indians expected to emigrate from the eastern to the western side of the Mississippi River, but who did not emigrate.
Sec. 2. Also to allow and pay him and the heirs of D. Greathouse for losses sustained on a contract. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to investigate, audit, allow, and pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James Erwin, and to the heirs or legal representatives of Daniel Greathouse, deceased, a full and fair remuneration for the actual losses sustained in consequence of a contract made by said Erwin and said Daniel Greathouse, in his lifetime, and the United States, in December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, to supply provisions and transportation for the use of the Seminole Indians expected to emigrate from the eastern to the western side of the Mississippi River, but who failed to Proviso.emigrate: *Provided*, The amount allowed as damages, in consequence of the non-use of the provisions furnished, shall not exceed the difference between their cost at the place or places where they were to have been delivered, and the amount for which they were afterwards sold.
Approved, August 10, 1846.