Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. Ⅴ.—An Act for the relief of North and Vesey, of Charleston, South Carolina.
Be it enacted, &c.,Certain duties refunded to North and Vesey. That the collector of the port of Charleston, in the
district of South Carolina, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed
to pay to North and Vesey, of the city of Charleston, merchants, the
amount of the duties paid by them on so much of a certain quantity of
sugars, imported into the said port in the prize ship called the Amity,
on the seventh day of April, one thousand seven hundred ninety-six, as
shall be proved, to his satisfaction, to have been burnt and destroyed in
the said city of Charleston: the said sugars not being liable to the payment
of duties, the sale thereof having been prohibited.
Approved, January 15, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. Ⅶ.—An Act for the relief of John Frank.
Be it enacted, &c.,Accounts of John Frank to be settled. That the Accountant for the department of war,
be, and he is hereby directed to settle the accounts of John Frank, late
a private in the second sub-legion of the army of the United States,
and to allow him the same pay and emoluments as a soldier, from the
nineteenth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four,
during the time of his captivity, as he would have been entitled to, had
he not been discharged from the public service before he was made
prisoner by the Indians.
Approved, January 20, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. Ⅸ.—An Act providing for the payment of the interest on a certificate due to General Kosciusko.
Be it enacted, &c.,Interest to be paid to General Kosciusko. That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized
and directed to pay to General Kosciusko, out of any moneys in the
Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, an interest at the rate of six per
cent. per annum, on the sum of twelve thousand two hundred and
eighty dollars and fifty-four cents, the amount of a certificate due to him
from the United States, from the first day of January, one thousand
seven hundred and ninety-three, to the thirty-first of December, one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.
Approved, January 23, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. Ⅻ.—An Act directing the Secretary at War to place certain persons on the pension list.
Be it enacted, &c.,Certain persons to be placed on pension list. That the Secretary for the Department of War,
be, and he is hereby directed to place on the pension list of the United
States, the several persons hereinafter named, who have been returned
as pension claimants by the judges of the several districts, pursuant to
the act of Congress, passed the twenty-eighth day of February, one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, entitled, Act of Feb. 28, 1793, ch. 17.“An act to regulate the claims to invalid pensions,” at the rates and proportions annexed
to the names of the said persons respectively, that is to say:
Pensioners and their rates.
N. Hampshire.Of the district of New Hampshire, Joseph Goodrich, a private, half
a pension; Joseph Patterson, a private, half a pension; Cæsar Barnes,
a private, one-third of a pension.
Connecticut.Of the district of Connecticut, John Downs, a serjeant, a full pension; Obadiah Perkins, a lieutenant, one-fourth of a pension.
Vermont.Of the district of Vermont, Joseph Tyler, a private, half a pension; Peter Rider, a corporal, half a pension; Isaac Webster, a serjeant, half a pension; Ephraim Wilmarth, a serjeant, two-thirds of a pension.
