Chapter IV. for the Relief of Enoch S
276 words·~1 min read·
/statutes-at-large/vol-10/chapter-iv-3311156·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
Chap. IV.— An Act for the Relief of Enoch S. More. Dec. 15, 1854. Whereas the rolls of Captain Abraham Matteson, of the New York militia, show that Enoch S. More deserted in eighteen hundred and twelve,Preamble as to error in army rolls, in stating that Enoch S. More deserted. and satisfactory evidence has been filed in the Pension-office, that said Enoch S. More, instead of having deserted, as shown by said roll, was absent on furlough, and sick, at the time aforesaid; and whereas, on an investigation of the said evidence, by the Commissioner of Pensions, it was deemed sufficient to grant him an invalid pension:
Now, therefore, in order to enable him to get a bounty of land under the act of September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and to correct said roll — *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Commissioner of Pensions be, and he is hereby, directed to correct the said roll, by erasing the 834 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 8, 9, 11, 12. 1854. words thereon which imply that the said Enoch S.
More deserted, and insert in lieu thereof the words “sick and absent on furlough.” Sec. 2. E. S. More to have all the rights he would have had if he had served out his enlistment. *And be it further enacted, *That this act shall vest in the said Enoch S. More all the rights he would have had if he had continued in good health and served in said company according to the terms of his enlistment. Approved, December 15, 1854.