Chapter LIV. to authorize the Secretary of War to make Reparation for the killing of a Caddo Boy by Volunteer Troops in Texas
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Chap. LIV.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to make Reparation for the killing of a Caddo Boy by Volunteer Troops in Texas. Feb. 19, 1849. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, $500 appropriated to make reparation for the killing of a Caddo boy by certain volunteers. That the sum of five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of War to carry out an agreement made and entered into at Torray’s Trading House, in the State of Texas, thirteenth September, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, between R.
S. Neighbors, United States special Indian agent, and Colonel P. H. Bell, on the one part, and Jose Maria Tow-i-ash and Had-i-hah, Caddo Indians, on the other part, to make reparation in money for the killing of a Caddo boy by the volunteer troops in Texas, in the summer of eighteen hundred and forty-eight. Approved, February 19, 1849.