Chapter CCLXII. for the relief of certain invalid and other pensioners therein named
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Chap. CCLXII.— An Act for the relief of certain invalid and other pensioners therein named.July 14, 1832. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place on the invalid pension roll of the United States, the Certain names to be placed on invalid pension roll, &c. names of the following persons; whereupon, they, and each of them, shall be entitled to receive the pensions severally set against their names, respectively, during life, that is to say:
Zebulon Wade at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. Samuel Espie, at the rate of ten dollars per month, in lieu of the pension he now receives, from and after the fourth day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. Asa Hoyt, at the rate of four dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. Benjamin Groun, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing 1834, ch. 127, § 2.
July twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. William Gallop, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing December eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. Bartholomew Delapierre, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, commencing December eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. 516TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 263. 1832. Daniel Stoddart, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
Edgar Freeman, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, commencing on the fourteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of War be, Name of John Miller to be re-inscribed on said roll. and he hereby is, directed to re-inscribe the name of John Miller on said pension roll, as on the third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, at the rate of eight dollars per month from that time to the third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, when his name was inscribed thereon, and that the said John Miller be entitled to receive the same arrears of his pension.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of War re-inscribe Also, John R. Rappleye. the name of John R. Rappleye on said roll, as on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, at the rate of eight dollars per month, until the third of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine; and that thereupon he be entitled to receive, as arrears of his pension, the sum of four dollars per month during that time. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of War re-inscribe Also, Robert Kane. the name of Robert Kane on the said pension roll, as of the date of November first, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, at the rate of seventeen dollars per month; and that, thereupon, he be entitled to receive, as arrears of his pension, the sum of nine dollars per month from that date up to the present time; and hereafter the said sum of seventeen dollars per month.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of War place Jane M. Lawrence, widow of Jonathan Lawrence, to receive half pay for five years. on the roll aforesaid the name of Jane Mary Lawrence, the widow of Jonathan Lawrence, an ensign in the service of the United States in the late war, who died of wounds received in said service, at the rate of seven dollars and fifty cents per month, for and during the term of five years from and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight: *Provided,* The said Jane Mary Lawrence Proviso. shall so long live and remain unmarried; but in the event of her death or intermarriage, then the remainder of said pension shall go to such child or children of the deceased as were under sixteen years of age at the time of his death, if any such there were.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of War be J. P. Preston to be allowed the amount which would have been due, &c. authorized, upon the application of J. P. Preston, a Colonel in the late war, and upon his making proof of his right to be placed upon the invalid pension roll as an officer of the late war, to allow the said Preston the amount which would have been due him had he made his application at the time he received his wound. Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of War cause R.
Atwater to be placed on list of invalid pensioners. to be placed on the list of invalid pensioners the name of Russel Atwater of Saint Lawrence county, state of New York, and pay to him eight dollars per month from first January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, during his life. Approved, July 14, 1832.