Chapter CVII. for the relief of the heirs of Doctor Isaac Ledyard, deceased
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Chap. CVII.— An Act for the relief of the heirs of Doctor Isaac Ledyard, deceased.March 2, 1833. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the proper accounting officers of the treasury Five years’ full pay as surgeon, with interest, allowed to heirs of Isaac Ledyard. be, and they are hereby, directed and required to allow the heirs of Doctor Isaac Ledyard the five years’ full pay of a surgeon, being the commutation of half pay for life of said Ledyard, as assistant purveyor of the hospital department of the revolutionary army; together with the interest thereon which would now be due had a certificate for that amount been issued by the United States, and subscribed under the “Act making provision for the debt of the United States,” passed Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34. the fourth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; 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 proper accounting officers Error in settlement of I. Ledyard’s account to be corrected. of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, directed to revise the settlement of the account of Doctor Isaac Ledyard, assistant deputy director of the hospital department in the revolutionary army, made by Benjamin Walker, commissioner of accounts of the hospital, clothing and marine departments of said army; and to allow to the heirs of said Doctor Isaac Ledyard the compensation fixed by the resolution Compensation to be allowed, and balance due to be paid. of Congress of February the sixth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, as specie, according to the report of the said Benjamin Walker, made to Congress on the fifteenth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, which is of record in the report book kept by said Walker, and filed in the office of the First Auditor of the Treasury; and that, on said settlement, if any balance is found due from the United States, the same be paid with the interest now due, to the heirs of said Doctor Isaac Ledyard, as though a certificate had been regularly issued therefor at the time it was due, and the same had been subscribed to the loan created by the act of one thousand Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34. seven hundred and ninety, providing for the funding of the debt of the 543TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 108, 109. 1833. United States, and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 2, 1833.