United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 39
Chap. XXXIX.—An Act to provide for the settlement of the claim of the State of Maine for the services of her militia.
1852, ch. 110, § 11.
Maine to be paid for the militia called into the service of the State in 1839.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be reimbursed and paid to the State of Maine, on the order of the Governor of said State, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, such amount as the Paymaster General of the United States army, and the accounting officers of the Treasury shall ascertain and certify would have been due from the United States to the militia called into the service of the State in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, for the protection of her northeastern frontier, by the Governor, if said militia had been duly called into the service of the United States, and regularly received and mustered by the officers of the United States army, according to the laws and regulations which have governed in the payment of the volunteers and militia of other States. And the Paymaster General and accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and required to include the following claims, presented by said State, viz.:
Cannon-balls and knapsacks.First. The cost of cannon-balls and knapsacks purchased by the State, for the use of the troops called into service, and for defence of the frontier aforesaid: Provided, That said balls and knapsacks shall belong to the United States.
Transportation.Second. The amount paid by the State and transportation of military stores, and of her troops in actual service as aforesaid; Provided, The amount should, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, appear to be reasonable.
Pay of staff officers.Third. The pay or compensation allowed by the State to the Paymaster and Commissary General, and other staff officers, while they were respectively employed in making or superintending disbursements for the militia in actual service as aforesaid: Provided, The compensation paid by the State, as aforesaid, shall not exceed that paid by the United States for similar services.
Blankets.Fourth. The sum paid by the State for blankets for the use of her militia while in actual service as aforesaid, or so much thereof as shall appear reasonable.
Repairs of arms.Fifth. The amount of expenditures by said State in necessary repairs of arms used by the militia while in actual service as aforesaid.
Proviso.Provided, That the accounts of the agent employed by the State of Maine to make said payments, be submitted to the Paymaster General and the accounting officers for their inspection.
Approved, June 13, 1842.