Chapter CCXII. for the relief of Benjamin Wells
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Chap. CCXII.— An Act for the relief of Benjamin Wells. May 29, 1830. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the accounting officers of the treasury be,Accounts to be settled, and credits allowed. and they hereby are authorized, directed, and required to settle the accounts of Benjamin Wells, as Deputy Commissary of Issues at the magazine at Monster Mills, in Pennsylvania, under John Irvine, Deputy Commissary General of the army of the United States in said state, in the revolutionary war, and as Deputy Foragemaster, under David Duncan, Deputy Quartermaster at the same magazine of the army aforesaid, in said war; and that they credit to him the sum of five hundred and seventy-five dollars and four cents, as payable February ninth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, and three hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents, payable July twentieth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, in the same manner, and with such interest, as if those sums, with their interest from the times respectively as aforesaid, had been subscribed to the loan of the United States, proposed by an act, entitled “An act making provision for the debt of the United States,” passed August fourth, one thousand seven hundred andAct of Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 34. ninety, and such subscription had been made on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; and pay to him such sums so credited, together with the amount of principal which would have been paid, or now remain due, under the provisions of said act; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 29, 1830.