United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/1st Session/Chapter 234
Chap. CCXXXIV.—An Act to authorize the payment of the claim of the state of Massachusetts, for certain services of her militia during the late war.
Claims to be settled.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury, under the superintendence of the Secretary of War, be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claims of the state of Massachusetts against the United States for the services of her militia during the late war, in the following cases: First, where the militia of the said state were called out to repel actual invasion, or under a well-founded apprehension of invasion:Proviso. Provided, their numbers were not in undue proportion to the exigency: Second, where they were called out by the authority of the state, and afterwards recognised by the federal government; and Thirdly, where they were called out by, and served under, the requisition of the President of the United States, or by any officer thereof.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of four hundred and thirty thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and twenty-six cents, if so much be necessary, be applied to the foregoing purposes, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 31, 1830.