Chapter CVIII. for the relief of the heirs of Colonel John Ely, deceased
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Chap. CVIII.— An Act for the relief of the heirs of Colonel John Ely, deceased.March 2, 1833. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That there be allowed to the legal heirs of Colonel Sixty dollars per month, and interest, allowed to heirs of Col. J. Ely. John Ely, deceased, who was a Colonel in the Connecticut line of the army of the revolution, the sum of sixty dollars per month for his services, expenses, and travel, in discharging the duties of physician and surgeon to sick and wounded prisoners of the American army, dispersed on various parts of Long Island, from the ninth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, to the twenty-fifth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty; and that the amount herein allowed be paid to the said heirs, together with such interest thereon as would now be due had a certificate therefor been issued on the said twenty-fifth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, and said certificate been subscribed to the debt of the United States, and funded under the act of August the fourth, Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34. one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and all dividends thereon were now outstanding and unpaid; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1833.