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[FTousB OF Reprbsbwtatives, No. 34:4.] 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Jan. 20th, 1 805.— Read 
 first and second times, placed on the Calendar, and ordered to be 
 printed. 
 
 [By Mr. Akin. 
 
 A. BILL 
 
 To be entitled An Act to provide for auditing and paying for horses 
 
 and equipments taken from dismounted cavalrymen for the 
 
 use of the Government. 
 
 1 Whereas, Cavalrymen of the army of the Confederate States 
 
 2 have been dismounted and their horses appropriated to the use 
 
 3 of the Confederate States government, and no provision has 
 
 4 been made for the payment thereof, 
 
 1 Be it therefore enacted by the Congress of the Confederate States 
 
 2 of .America, That in every case where a cavalryman has been 
 
 3 dismounted and his horse or equipments, or either, has been 
 
 4 taken for the use of the Confederate States, the owner of said 
 
 5 horse and equipments shall be paid, out of any money appropri- 
 
 6 ated therefor, the value of said horse and equipmer.ts at the 
 
 7 time they were so taken, upon proof of their value and owner- 
 
 8 ship, when the claim therefor has been audited and allowed by 
 $ the proper officer for that purpose, under such rules and rogula- 
 
 10 tioES as the Quartermaster General Bhall prescribe. 
 
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