Chapter CCXV. for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Torrey, deceased
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Chap. CCXV.— An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Torrey, deceased.June 30, 1834. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the proper accounting officers of the treasury do settle the account of Joseph Torrey, a Major of the revolutionary Five years’ full pay of a major allowed them. army, in Colonel Hazen’s regiment of the revolutionary army, and allow him five years’ full pay of a major, as a commutation for the half pay for life, which, by the resolve of October twenty-one, seventeen hundred and eighty, Congress engaged to pay to the officers of the revolutionary army, who should serve to the end of the war.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum so found due be paid Appropriation. to the legal representatives of the said Joseph Torrey, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 30, 1834.