United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 170
[Obsolete.]
Chap. CLXX.—An Act to provide for the settlement of the claim of the State of New York for the services of her militia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Sec. War to cause New York to be paid such amount as the Paymaster Gen’l. and account’g officers of the Treasury shall certify, &c. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be reimbursed and paid to the State of New York, on the order of the Governor of said State, out of the appropriation for the prevention of hostilities on the northern frontier, 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 volunteers and militia called into the service of the State, in the latter part of the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven and the first part of the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, for the protection of said frontier, by the Governor, if said volunteers 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:Proviso. Provided, That the accounts of the agent employed by the State of New York to make said payments, be submitted to the Paymaster General and the accounting officers for their inspection: And provided also,Proviso. 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 the officers of the United States army appointed by the President to command on the northern frontier.
Approved, July 7, 1838.