Chapter CCLIX. for the relief of the personal representatives of Colonel John Laurens
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Chap. CCLIX.— An Act for the relief of the personal representatives of Colonel John Laurens.July 14, 1832. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, directed, authorized and required, to settle the Account to be settled and paid. account of the personal representatives of Col. John Laurens, late of the army of the United States, in the revolutionary war, and some time Minister Extraordinary to France, for and on account of the military and diplomatic services of the said Col.
Laurens; and therein, that they, the said accounting officers, allow and credit to said personal representatives, the interest on the amount due to him, the said Laurens, by the books of the treasury, on the fifth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, for balance of his salary as Minister as aforesaid, up to the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one; and on two hundred and six dollars and fifty-four cents, being the balance due on the military account of the said Col.
John Laurens, together with the interest from the first of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, to the thirty-first of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; all in the same manner as if indents of interest had been yearly issued to him or them therefor: and that they also credit the said personal representatives for the two several sums last aforesaid, in the same manner as if treasury certificates had, before the said thirty-first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, been issued therefor, bearing an interest of six per centum per annum; and that certificates of stocks be thereupon issued at the treasury to said personal representatives, for the several sums aforesaid, in the same manner and of the same tenor and date, as if the same had been, on said thirty-first of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, subscribed to the loan of the United States, proposed by the act, entitled “An act making provision for the debt of the Act of Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 34.
United States,” passed August the fourth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; and that said stocks be redeemable thereafter, in the same manner as other stocks have been redeemed or were made redeemable by the provisions of said act, and by those of an act, entitled “An act in addition to an act, entitled ‘An act for the further support of public Act of April 28, 1796, ch. 16. credit and the redemption of the public debt,’” passed April twenty-eight, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, and of all other acts 515TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 260, 261, 262. 1832. made or to be made, in aid thereof, and that all dividends thereupon, found due on said stocks, whether for interest or principal, be paid to said personal representatives, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, July 14, 1832.