United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 82
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Chap. LXXXII.—An Act to provide for the payment of expenses incurred and supplies furnished on account of the militia or volunteers received into the service of the United States for the defence of Florida.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Secretary of War to cause expenses incurred to be paid. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to cause to be paid the expenses that have been incurred, and the supplies that have been furnished, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and the Territory of Florida, on account of the militia or volunteers received into the service of the United States for the defence of Florida.Proviso. Provided, That the accounts for these claims shall be examined and audited at the Treasury, as in other cases.
Militia and volunteers regularly discharged, to be paid.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized to cause the militia called out to defend East Florida, by Generals Clinch and Hernandez, or by the Governor in Middle and West Florida, and such other militia and volunteers as have been received and mustered into the service of the United States and regularly discharged, to be paid in like manner with the volunteers and militia ordered into service under orders from the War Department.
Approved, May 28, 1836.