Chapter CXXII. *for the Relief of William L
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Chap. CXXII.— An Act *for the Relief of William L. Davidson.* March 3, 1857. *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 directed to ascertain and Half-pay to children of Col. Wm. Davidson in full.allow to William L. Davidson, for himself and the other children of Lieutenant-Colonel William Davidson, of the North Carolina line, in the continental army of the United States, who was killed in battle on the first of February, seventeen hundred and eighty-one, at Cowan’s ford, on the Catawba River, the amount of the half-pay for seven years of the said Colonel Davidson, as a lieutenant-colonel of infantry.
The said sum of money, when ascertained, to be paid, without interest, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be in full of all claims which the children of the said William Davidson may have against the United States under the resolution of Congress of the twenty-fourth of August, seventeen hundred and eighty. Approved, March 3, 1857.