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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · August 26, 1852 · Chapter XCIV

Chapter XCIV. *for the Relief of John Moore White.* August 26, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary Seven years’ half-pay of Major J

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Chap. XCIV.— An Act *for the Relief of John Moore White.* August 26, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary Seven years’ half-pay of Major J. White to be paid to his son J. M. White.of the Treasury be, and is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John Moore White, son and sole heir of Major John White, a major in the army of the Revolution, and slain at the battle of Germantown, or his heirs, the seven years’ half-pay to which Major White would have been entitled, had he not died before a resolve of Congress passed the twenty-fourth of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty.
Approved, August 26, 1852.
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