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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · May 25, 1832 · Chapter C

Chapter C. for the relief of the heirs and residuary legatees of William Carter, late of the state of Virginia, deceased

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Chap. C.— An Act for the relief of the heirs and residuary legatees of William Carter, late of the state of Virginia, deceased. May 25, 1832. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the proper accounting officers of the treasuryFive years’ full pay as surgeon allowed. be, and they are hereby, required to settle and adjust the account of William Carter (now deceased,) and to allow to his heirs or residuary legatees, five years’ full pay for his services as surgeon in the revolutionary war, which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life, together with such interest as would have accrued on the TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 101, 102, 103. 1832. 491 said five years’ full pay, if a certificate for that amount had been issued by the United States and funded under “the Act making provision forAct of August 4, 1790, ch. 34. the debt of the United States,” passed the fourth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 25, 1832.
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