Chapter XLIII. for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of Colonel John H
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Chap. XLIII.— An Act for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of Colonel John H. Stone. Jan. 18, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to pay, out of any money in thePayment to representatives of Colonel John H. Stone. treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of Colonel John H. Stone, the half-pay of a colonel in the continental line of the army of the United States; the said half-pay to commence on the first day of August, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, and to terminate on the fifth day of October, eighteen hundred and four, the day of his death.
The same being then due and unpaid to the said Colonel John H. Stone, in virtue of the resolution of Congress of the twenty-sixth of August, seventeen hundred and seventy-six, which engaged to allow half-pay for life to such officers and soldiers as should lose a limb in any engagement, or be so disabled in the service of the United States of America as to render them incapable afterward of getting a livelihood, the said pay to commence from and after the time that their pay as an officer or soldier ceased.
Approved, January 18, 1855.