Bill for the Relief of Lewis Garanger, 2 January 1793 (Abstract)

Bill for the Relief of Lewis Garanger

Abstract. 2 January 1793. The bill authorizes the comptroller of the treasury, “in the adjustment of the claims of Lewis Garanger, to allow him the pay and subsistence of a Captain of Artillery” from 29 Sept. 1780 until 15 Nov. 1783.1

Ms (DNA: RG 233, House of Representatives Records). One page, in a clerk’s hand. Signed by John Beckley, clerk of the House. Docketed by Samuel A. Otis.

1. On 29 Nov. 1792 the House passed a resolution for settlement of Garanger’s account and appointed JM chairman of a select committee to prepare a bill pursuant to the resolution. He reported the bill on 6 Dec., the House passed it on 2 Jan. 1793, but the Senate defeated it on 9 Feb. (Annals of Congress description begins Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, 1789–1824 (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). description ends , 2d Cong., 2d sess., 731, 738, 869; Journal of the House of Representatives, 2d Cong., 2d sess. [Philadelphia, 1793; Evans description begins Charles Evans, ed., American Bibliography … 1639 … 1820 (12 vols.; Chicago, 1903–34). Roger P. Bristol, ed., Supplement to Charles Evans’ American Bibliography (Charlottesville, Va., 1970). description ends 26332], p. 68).

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Title: Bill for the Relief of Lewis Garanger, 2 January 1793 (Abstract)
Author: Madison, James
Date: 2 January 1793

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Cite as: “Bill for the Relief of Lewis Garanger, 2 January 1793 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-14-02-0389. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 14, 6 April 1791 – 16 March 1793, ed. Robert A. Rutland and Thomas A. Mason. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983, p. 435.]