Chapter LXV. *for the Relief of Whitemarsh B
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Chap. LXV.— An Act *for the Relief of Whitemarsh B. Seabrook and others.* March 2, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War 1858, ch. 7. *Post,* p. 527. Claims of members of the Edisto Island Company to be audited and paid.be and he is hereby authorized and directed to examine and settle, upon the principles of equity and justice, the claim of Whitemarsh B. Seabrook, William C.
Meggett, Benjamin Bailey, W. E. Wood, Edward Mitchell, Joseph J. Murray, Charles Townsend, John Patterson, William R. Hart, 502 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 66. 1857.Joseph Jenkins, Edward Bailey, Henry Seabrook, Cato A. Beckett, Benjamin S. Whaley, Isaac Auld, John Ailcock, James B. Adams, William Beckett, Edward Beckett, James Beekett, William G. Baynard, John Baynard, Ephraim Baynard, Charles Bailey, Henry Bailey, Francis Bowler, Henry Calder, James Clark, sr., Robert Chisholm, Gabriel Crawford, William Clement, James Dignan, Thomas Dunmire, William Edings, George W.
Freeman, Barney Gilbert, William Hannahan, jr., Henry J. Jones, Christopher Jenkins, Benjamin W. Jenkins, Robert S. Jenkins, Daniel Lowrey, Robert Mason, Ephraim Mikell, John C. Mikell, Josiah Mikell, John Mikell, sr., John Raven Matthews, Isaac C. Moses, Mungo Mackay, John McDougall, Robert McLeod, John C. Pillans, Robert Pillans, John Pattieson, William Seabrook, Gabriel Seabrook, Joseph A. Seabrook, Andrew Seabrook, Lewis Strobel, James Swinton, Christian Staley, Daniel Shandley, Andrew E.
Thayer, Daniel Townsend, Thomas Tompson, George M. Towers, Edward Whaley, Joseph Whaley, William Wilkinson, Christopher Wilkinson, Morton Wilkinson, Thomas Wescoat, William J. Wescoat, Randall Wescoat, Walley Meggett, Mingoe Crawford, and Joseph Beamer, they being the officers, musicians, and privates composing the Edisto Island Company of militia, in the Shite of South Carolina, in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve; and that he allow to those named, who are living, and the heirs of those deceased, the amount of pay and allowances to which each of them would have been entitled, according to their respective positions, under the regulations of the service at that time, for such length of time as they shall each of them be proved to have served in defence of said island during the said war; and that he allow them just and reasonable compensation for the material and labor which shall be proved to have been expended by them in the erection of two fortifications on that island, for the purposes of defence in said war.
Appropriation. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount adjudicated to be due the said parties by the Secretary of War. Approved, March 2, 1857.