Chapter XLII. for the Relief of Elijah White, and others
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Chap. XLII.— An Act for the Relief of Elijah White, and others. March 2, 1847. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Secretary of War authorized to pay them the amount of their That the Secretary of War be authorized to pay to Elijah White, Charles Saxton, Orris Brown, M. S. Chapman, the respective losses sustained by them, notTWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 43. 1847.689 exceeding in the aggregate the sum of one thousand and eighty-onerespective losses, not exceeding in the aggregate $1,081. dollars, being the value of property forcibly taken from them by the Pawnee Indians at or near the head of Grand Island, on the Platte or Nebraska River; and that the sum of one thousand and eighty-one dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose aforesaid.
Approved, March 2, 1847.