Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. IV

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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916

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No. 264 HOUSE RESOLUTION 23, 46TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION

Printer's No., 454

46th Congress, 1st Session.

H. RES. 23. In the House of Representatives April 21, 1879. Read twice, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Reagan, on leave, introduced the following joint resolution: JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the State of Texas one million six hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty-nine cents, on account of moneys paid out by said State for frontier defense. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any moneys in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, to the State of Texas, the sum of one million six hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty-nine cents. with lawful interest thereon, to reimburse said State for moneys paid as compensation, and for supplies for troops for the defense of the frontiers of Texas, from the twenty-eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, to the commencement of the late civil war, and from the commencement of the administration of the State govern- ment by Governor Andrew J. Hamilton to the present time. [Endorsed] 46th Congress H RES. 23.

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