Chapter CXXIII. for the Relief of Bent, St
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Chap. CXXIII.— An Act for the Relief of Bent, St. Vrain, and Company. Aug. 5, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, The claim of Bent, St. Vrain, and Company to be settled on principles of equity and justice. That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to audit and settle the claim of Bent, St. Vrain, and Company, on principles of equity and justice, for provisions collected for the use of a detachment of United States troops on the waters of the upper Arkansas, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-three, under a contract made with Major Lee, commissary of subsistence at St.
Louis, and recommended to be allowed by General Gibson, Commissary-General of Subsistence, by letter to the Second Comptroller, dated May Amount found due them to be paid.twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-four; and that the amount found due to the said Bent, St. Vrain, and Company, be paid to them out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, August 5, 1848.