Chapter CXXX. for the relief of Cornelia Mason
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Chap. CXXX.— An Act for the relief of Cornelia Mason. April 20, 1818. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to place on the half-pay pension list, for five years, at theTo be placed on the half-pay pension list. rate of four dollars per month, Cornelia Mason, the widow of Alexander Mason, who volunteered his services as a militia man, with a detachment of militia commanded by Brigadier-General Perkins, on the northern frontier, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and who was killed in a battle with a party of Indians, in the month of September in the said year, to be to the use of her and her six children, the legitimate offspring of her, the said Cornelia Mason, and her said deceased husband, Alexander Mason, under the rules and regulations prescribed in, and provided for by, an act entitled “An act making furtherAct of April 16, 1816, ch. 55. provision for military services during the late war, and for other purposes,” approved April sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
Approved, April 20, 1818. 15 2 1818 1819 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixteenth day of November,* 1818, *and ended on the third day of March,* 1819. James Monroe, President; Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II.