Chapter CXVII. for the Relief of George B
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Chap. CXVII.— An Act for the Relief of George B. Russell and others. March 3, 1847. *Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Accounting officers to ascertain and pay George B. Russell and others, the amount of their claims for provisions and clothing furnished the Cherokee Indians. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be directed to ascertain, by competent and satisfactory proof, the amount of the claims, respectively, of George B.
Russell, George M. Lavender, George E. Mountcarth, John M. Bruce, R. J. Loyless, John Dawson, and S. C. Newman, and that the same be paid to them, or their heirs, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; it being for bread, meat, and clothing furnished the Cherokee Indians, to induce them to accept Ridge’s treaty, and under the appointment and authority of Benjamin F. Curry, superintendent of Cherokee removals. Approved, March 3, 1847.