United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 127
Chap. CXXVII.—An Act to provide for the settlement of the claims of the State of Georgia for the services of her militia.
1852, ch. 110, § 14.
Appropriation to indemnify Georgia for expenses in calling out her militia to suppress Indian hostilit’s.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of 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.
What would have been due, &c. to be first ascertained.Sec. 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 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:Proviso. 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:Proviso. 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.
Approved, August 11, 1842.