Branham v. Lange

At the extra session of the Legislature of Indiana, in 1861, an act was passed, approved May 31, of said year, entitled “ An act making additional appropriations, &c., and providing for a committee to audit claims upon said appropriation.” Acts, Special Session, 1861, p. 3. The act, among other things, provides:

“ Seo. I. Be ii enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the sum of $1,000,000 be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to defray the expenses growing out of the insurrectionary condition of a portion of the United States, and in enlisting, maintaining and…