TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 17. 1837.
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CHAP. XVII.- An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one
thousand eight and thirty-seven, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following
sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of
the army, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven;
that is to say;
[SEC. 1. Omitted]
SEC. 2. And he it further enacted, That the following sums of money be paid, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, on the requisition of the Secretary of
War, and, so far as shall be necessary, the same shall be expended for the following
purposes, to wit:
For the pay, travelling, clothing for six months, and other legal expenses of the Tennessee
volunteers, mustered into the service of the United States under the requisition of General
Gaines, under date of April eighth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and the
proclamation of Governor Cannon of twenty-eighth of the same month, and approved by the
Secretary of War on the ninth of May, by direction of the President of the United States,
one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That such of said volunteers as volunteered under
the proclamation of Governor Cannon of the sixth of June or twentieth of July one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-six, and were mustered into the service of the United States, and
are entitled to clothing under the act of May twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-six, shall not be paid for clothing out of the aforesaid appropriation:
For pay, travelling, clothing, and other legal expenses of the Tennessee volunteers,
mustered into the service of the United States under the order of the Secretary of War of
May twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and Governor Cannon’s
proclamation of June sixth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, ninety-five thousand
dollars:
For pay, travelling, clothing, and other legal expenses of the Tennessee volunteers,
mustered into the service of the United States under General Gaines’s requisition,
under date of June twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and Governor
Cannon’s proclamation of July twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six,
thirty-five thousand three hundred and ten dollars:
For the liabilities incurred by Governor Cannon in raising money; so far as said money has
been properly expended in the service of the United States, on account of the aforesaid
volunteers, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars:
For pay due the Executive staff of the Governor of Tennessee, while actually engaged in
obtaining, organizing, mustering, or marching volunteers, during the year one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-six, to the places of their rendezvous, or making returns of said
volunteers, three thousand dollars.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary at War be and he hereby is directed to
cause to be paid to the volunteers and militia of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and
Mississippi, including the companies in Mississippi, mustered into the service, who were
duly called into service, and whose service was accepted by the Executives of the States
respectively, during the summer of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, under
requisitions from the Secretary at War or from generals commanding the troops of the United
States, and who were discharged before marching, the amount of one month’s pay, with
all the allowances to which they would have been entitled if they had been in actual service
during the period of one month; and that the same be paid out of any money in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated.
[SEC. 4. Omitted]
Approved March 1, 1837
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Source:
United States Statutes at Large, 24th Congress, Sess. II,
Volume V, Pages 148-151.
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