Chap. ⅩⅣ.—An Act making provision for the persons therein mentioned.
Be it enacted, &c.,Allowance to the widows and orphans of John Harding and Alex. Trueman. That four hundred and fifty dollars per annum, for seven years, be allowed to the widow and orphan children of the said Colonel John Harding, and the sum of three hundred dollars per annum, for the same term of seven years, to the orphan children of the said Major Alexander Trueman, to commence on the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and to be paid half-yearly, at the treasury, to the said widow, and to the guardians of the said orphan children, or to their legal attorneys.
Approved, February 27, 1793.
Chap. ⅩⅩⅧ.—An Act providing an annual allowance for the education of Hugh Mercer.
Allowance for education of Hugh Mercer.Be it enacted, &c., That the annual allowance to be made for the
education of Hugh Mercer, son of the late General Mercer, pursuant to
the resolution of the former Congress of the date of the eighth of April
one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, shall be four hundred
dollars from the time for which he has been last paid until his education
shall be finished, or he shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years. Comptroller to settle his account.And
that the comptroller of the treasury be authorized to revise and settle
the account of the said Hugh Mercer for his pension to the present
time; the balance of which, as also the annual allowances aforesaid,
as they shall become due, shall be paid to his guardian at the treasury.
Approved, March 2, 1793.
Chap. ⅩⅩⅨ.—An Act for the relief of Elijah Bostwick.
Grant to indemify Elijah Bostwick.Be it enacted, &c., That as an indemnification, and to reimburse
Elijah Bostwick, for certain costs and expenditures he was put to in
defending a prosecution against him on contracts which he made as an
agent of the deputy commissary-general of purchases in the northern
department, in the purchase of cattle for the use of the continental
army, at a time, during the late war, when they were in great want of
provisions, there be granted to him one hundred and forty-five dollars
and forty-two cents, payable out of any unappropriated money in the
treasury of the United States.
Approved, March 2, 1793.
Chap. ⅩⅩⅩⅡ.—An Act for the relief of Simeon Thayer.
S. Thayer to be placed on pension-list, on returning his commutation of half-pay.Be it enacted, &c., That Simeon Thayer, late a major in the army
of the United States, who was disabled at the battle of Monmouth, be
placed on the pension-list of the United States, and that he be allowed
the half pay of a major, from the first day of January one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-one: Provided he return into the treasury-office a
sum equivalent to the whole of his commutation of half pay.
Approved, March 2, 1793.
