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[House op Rbpresentative3, No. 342.] 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRE^^ENTATIVES, Jan. 20, 1865.— Laid on 
 the table, and ordered to be printed. 
 
 [By Mr. Herbbrt, from Committee on Claims. 
 
 A. BILL 
 
 To be entitled An Act providing for the auditing and payiaent of 
 properly authenticated claims. 
 
 1 Whereas, Under authority of Lt. Gen. E. Kirby Smith, com- 
 
 2 manding the Trans-Mississippi Military Department, large quan- 
 
 3 titles of cotton have been purchased for the use of the Confed- 
 
 4 eiate States by W. J. Hutchins, appointed for that purpose, for 
 
 5 which certificate s have been given, providing that payment should 
 
 6 be made as Congress might thereafter prescribe. And wherb- 
 
 7 AS, Said daims cannot be paid without the sanction of Congress, 
 
 8 according to the terms of the contract, Therefore, 
 
 1 The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, 
 
 2 That the Secretary of the Treasury do cause all such claims for 
 
 3 cotton sold and delivered to the said W. J. JIutchins, for the 
 
 4 use of the Confederate States, to be examined and audited by 
 
 5 the proper accounting officer of the Trans-Mississippi Depart- 
 
 6 ment, according to such regulations as he may deem just and 
 
 7 proper, and that there be paid therefor just compensation, out 
 
 8 of any funds appropriated thereto. 
 
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