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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · Feb. 14, 1855 · Chapter CI

Chapter CI. for the Relief of the Widow and Children of Ezra Chapman, deceased

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Chap. CI.— An Act for the Relief of the Widow and Children of Ezra Chapman, deceased. Feb. 14, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to pay to the lawful administrators of Ezra Chapman, late of Tolland, Connecticut,Payment to administration of Ezra Chapman. deceased, for the benefit of his widow and children, the sum of eight hundred and forty dollars, the same being the aggregate amount of seven years’ half-pay of Ezra Chapman, the father of the aforesaid Ezra Chapman, deceased, who was an ensign in the army of the Revolution, and died in the service of the United States, on the first day of September, seventeen hundred and seventy-eight, and which sum of money was due to the said Ezra Chapman, deceased, on account of the services of his said father, by the provisions of the resolution of Congress passed the twenty-fourth day of August, seventeen hundred and eighty.
Approved, February 14, 1855.
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