United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/2nd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 29

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March 2, 1793

Chap. ⅩⅩⅨ.—An Act for the relief of Elijah Bostwick.


Grant to indemify Elijah Bostwick.Be it enacted, &c., That as an indemnification, and to reimburse Elijah Bostwick, for certain costs and expenditures he was put to in defending a prosecution against him on contracts which he made as an agent of the deputy commissary-general of purchases in the northern department, in the purchase of cattle for the use of the continental army, at a time, during the late war, when they were in great want of provisions, there be granted to him one hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-two cents, payable out of any unappropriated money in the treasury of the United States.

Approved, March 2, 1793.