United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 261
Chap. CCLXI.—An Act to provide for the payment to the State of Louisiana of the balance due said State for expenditures incurred in raising, equipping and paying off a regiment of volunteer militia, mustered into the service of the United States, and employed in the Florida war in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriation to pay the balance due Louisiana. That the sum of sixty-one thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifteen cents, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to pay the balance due the State of Louisiana for expenditures incurred in raising, equipping and paying off a regiment of volunteer militia, employed in the service of the United States in the Seminole war.
Approved, August 29, 1842.