United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 4
No. 4. Joint Resolution respecting the application of certain appropriations heretofore made.
Settlements for supplies furnished militia under act of Aug. 23, 1842, ch. 192, how to be discharged.
Proviso.
Post, p. 797.Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in settling for supplies furnished to militia in the service of the United States under the act of twenty-third August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, the accounting officers be directed to discharge the claims for said supplies, in the following order, to wit: First, the amounts due to individual claimants, and secondly, those due to the Territory of Florida: Provided, That the whole amount of supplies paid for shall not exceed the quantity of each description to which the said troops were entitled by existing laws.
Approved, April 30, 1844.