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27th CONGRESS,
2d [2nd] Session.
S. 17.



IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
May 16, 1842. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.

Mr GOGGIN, from the Committee on Military Affairs, to which had been referred the following bill from the Senate, (No. 17,) reported the same with amendments, which are printed at the end.

AN ACT

To provide for the payment of the claim of the State of Georgia, for money advanced by that State on account of expenses incurred by calling out militia, in cases of emergency, to aid in the repression of Indian hostilities in Florida and Alabama, and to protect the citizens of Georgia from sudden incursions and ravages of the Creek and Seminole Indians.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of [two hundred and eight thousand six hundred and eighteen dollars be, and it is hereby, appropriated to the payment and indemnity of the State of Georgia, for money paid by that State on account of expenses incurred by calling out militia, in cases of emergency, to aid in the repression of Indian hostilities in Florida and Alabama, and to protect the citizens of Georgia from sudden incursions and ravages of the Creek and Seminole Indians; and that the act of Congress of the
twenty-eighth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, chapter four hundred and seventy-two, and the


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principles of settlement adopted under it, be made applicable to the demands of the State of Georgia for money paid out as aforesaid.]
Passed the Senate,
February 17, 1842.
Attest:
[Signed] ASBURY DICKINS, Secretary .

AMENDMENTS.

Strike out all after the words "the sum of," in the third line, and insert as follows:
One hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to the payment and indemnity of the State of Georgia, for any money actually paid by said State on account of necessary and proper expenses incurred by said State in calling out her militia, in the years
eighteen hundred and thirty-five,
eighteen hundred and thirty-six,
eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, during the Seminole, Cherokee, and Creek campaigns, or for the suppression of Indian hostilities in Florida and Alabama, or so much of said sum as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, after deducting any sum or sums of money that may have heretofore been advanced by the United States to the State of Georgia, to be applied to the objects aforesaid, and which may not have been previously so applied.
SEC. [SECTION] 2. And be it further enacted, That the Paymaster General of the United States army and the accounting officers of the Treasury shall first ascertain and certify what


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would have been due from the United States to the volunteers and militia called into the service of the said State of Georgia, or by her proper authorities, during the time and for the purposes mentioned in the preceding section, if said volunteers and militia had been duly called into the service of the United States, and regularly received and mustered by 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: Provided, That the accounts of the agent or other officer of the State of Georgia, employed or authorized to make payments for the aforesaid services, or any of them, be submitted to the Paymaster General and the accounting officers, for their inspection: And provided, also, That no reimbursement shall be made on account of the payment of any volunteers or militia who refused to be received and mustered into the service of the United States, or to serve under officers of the United States army, if any may have been ordered to that service by the President of the United States or other proper authority.
Amend the title of the act, by striking out the whole after the words "An act to provide," and insert "for the settlement of the claims of the State of Georgia for the services of her militia."