Chapter CXLIV. for the relief of Elizabeth Hamilton
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Chap. CXLIV.— An Act for the relief of Elizabeth Hamilton. April 29, 1816. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby required to settle the account of ElizabethFive years’ pay allowed. Hamilton, widow and representative of Alexander Hamilton, deceased, and to allow her five years’ full pay for the services of her deceased husband, as a lieutenant-colonel in the revolutionary war, which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 29, 1816.