United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/2nd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 28


March 2, 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.