Chapter CLIX. for the relief of Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer, children and heirs at law of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, deceased
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Chap. CLIX.— An Act for the relief of Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer, children and heirs at law of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, deceased. May 29, 1830. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the accounting officers of the treasuryFive years’ pay as lieutenant-colonel allowed.Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 291, allowing interest on the commutation of half pay. be, and they are hereby, directed and required to adjust and settle the account of Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer, children and heirs at law of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, and pay to them five years’ full pay, being the commutation for half pay for life, due to their said father in his life-time, for services by him rendered to the United States in their army, during the revolutionary war, as a Lieutenant-Colonel on the continental establishment; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of War be, andBounty land warrant to be issued. he is hereby, authorized, directed and required to issue to the said Sarah and Dorothy, and in their names, a land warrant for four hundred and fifty acres of military bounty land, as, and for the lands to which the said Robert Hanson Harrison, was, while in full life, entitled, for and on account of the services by him so as aforesaid rendered; and that the same may be located on any vacant or unlocated lands heretofore appropriated by Congress for said purposes.
Approved, May 29, 1830.