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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · March 3, 1857 · Chapter CLXIV

Chapter CLXIV. *for the Relief of the surviving Children of Sarah Van Pelt, Widow of John Van Pelt, a revolutionary Soldier.* March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Arrears of pension to be paid to s

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Chap. CLXIV.— An Act *for the Relief of the surviving Children of Sarah Van Pelt, Widow of John Van Pelt, a revolutionary Soldier.* March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Arrears of pension to be paid to surviving children of John and Sarah Van Pelt.Treasury be and he is hereby directed to pay to the surviving children of John Van Pelt and Sarah Van Pelt the pension due to her, from the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight to her death, which occurred on the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, at the rate of thirty-one dollars and seventy-five cents per annum, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1857.
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