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Confederate imprint, "A Bill To be entitled An Act to provide for the settlement of certain matters of account growing out of purchases of property as alleged by the purchasers for the use of the Government, by Payne & Co., in the State of Texas." 4p. octavo, and reads in part: "...Whereas, William J. Payne, George B. Payne, Hezekiah Payne, and John I. Berry, under the name and style of Messrs. Payne & Co., some time during the year A.D. 1862, with the assent and approbation of an agent and officer fo the Government of the Confederate States, as they alleged, did purchase a large number of beeves and other property from various citizens of different counties of the State of Texas, for the use and benefit, as alleged by said Payne & Co., of the Confederate States; and whereas, said Payne & Co., in paying for the property purchased as aforesaid, as it is alleged, delivered to the parties from whom such purchases were made, counterfeit treasury notes of the Confederate States, to an amount, as asserted, of over one hundred thousand dollars, and in consequence of which, said parties were greatly defrauded by said Payne & Co.; and whereas, the Government of the Confederate States, through its agents or offices, received, took charge of, and appropriated to its own use the property purchased by said Payne & Co., but the Government has not as yet paid for such property, and declines and refuses to do so, in consequences of the losses incurred by the parties who sold the same to said Payne & Co., and until the necessary proof can be taken in the premises, in order taht such parties may be fully reimbursed; and whereas, as appears by the records of the War Department, an account to amount of one hundred and seventy thousand dolalrs has been stated and found by the Commissary Department heretofore at Jackson, in the State of Mississippi, to be due by the Government of the Confederate States for such property; and the said Payne & Co. claim, in addition to this sum, to be entitled to sixty thousand dollars, making in the aggregate, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars; and whereas, the Legislature of the State of Texas, having, by joint resolutions, requested the Senatores and Representatives from that State to use their efforts to have some action taken by Congress to ensure a settlement of the rights of the parties interested in said transaction..." More. VG.

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