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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · July 7, 1838 · Chapter CCXVI

Chapter CCXVI. *for the relief of the. legal representatives of John B

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Chap. CCXVI.— An Act *for the relief of the. legal representatives of John B. Ashe, deceased.*July 7, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, directed to allow and pay toAllowed commutation of half pay for life. the legal representative or representatives of the late John Baptiste Ashe, the commutation of half pay for life of said Ashe, as lieutenant-colonel in the line of the continental army during the war of the revolution; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, July 7, 1838.
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