United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 178
Chap. CLXXVIII.—An Act authorizing the settlement and payment of certain claims of the State of Alabama.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Secretary of War to audit and adjust the claims of Alabama, how. That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, directed to audit and adjust the claims of the State of Alabama, under such laws and regulations as have heretofore governed the Department in auditing and allowing the claims of the States on the United States, for moneys advanced and paid by said State for subsistence, supplies, and services of local troops called into service by and under the authorities of said State, but not mustered into the service of the United States, and for provisions and forage furnished the friendly Indians during the Creek and Seminole hostilities, in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-six and eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in all cases in which the payment was for subsistence, supplies, service, provisions, and forage, which would have been paid for under existing laws and regulations, if such troops had been mustered into the service of the United States, and the provisions and forage had been furnished by an agent of the United States;Sum found due to be paid. and that the sum so found due to said State be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated:Proviso. Provided, That, in auditing and adjusting said claims, duly authenticated copies of papers which have been lost or destroyed, upon due proof of such loss or destruction, shall be received as evidence.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, Report on claims presented, and not allowed, to be made to the House of Reps.and he hereby is, required to report to the House of Representatives a schedule of such claims as may be presented for adjustment under this act, and not allowed, with the reasons for such disallowance, at the next session of Congress.
Approved, August 16, 1842.