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1 Indemnities for Slaves on Board the Comet and Encomium 1 (1842)

handle is hein.slavery/indslvc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 27th C9pGRss, Doe,. No. 24j. lb. oF RE'S. IND MNIT[ES FOR SLAVES ON BOARD THE COMET AND ENCQMIUM. [To accomnpany bil 11.R.o ~8J JuN. 10, 1842. laid before the House by tbe chairman of the Committee of Ways and Meanrs, ai ordered to be .. .. - - .print~d., . . DEPAkTMENT OF TATE, Washigton Ma~6, 1184g. S!i i have the honor to enclose copies of an account of indemnities re- ,eived from the British Government, or slayes per the Cometand Enco- tnjum, and of the statement accompanying it, Ad byt 'he* late John For- -yth\4ith t&' accotiIing officers of the I reasury; froth'ihh it' bars ihat, on the IIth of March, 1841, he paid into the Treasury the balafhce .emaining in his hands of those indemnities, ainountin to $7,965 28. That balance, belonged, of right, to several individuals or companies tiahi i- th9 stateihent'acc6mpanying the account; but, either for wani of a5t1hcationo fsoifi t e6f 'or of agreement as to tle division of the aiolitt allotted as e:ipenses, a final distribution ol it was rot made . 'As one of those persons is now r urhg h clgliseandi a tl btoh'ers may be exPect~d shorily ib do so, and as the money, being nOw in the Treasury, caknot beivithdfawn .*trhout an act of appropiatioi), I have the honor to suggest the propriety of providing, by such an act, that the balance her6-( opfore paid into the Treasury may be paid to the per'sons entitled to It,' t f 6any moneys• in the Treasury not otherwise approriated. I 'have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, 1101. MalLARD FILLMoRE, DNE o eB -ChAirmani Committee Vf Ways and Means, Ho. of R~p& Reproduced with permission from the University of Illinois at Chicago

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