Chapter CXXXI. for the relief of Mary James, of Bedford county, Virginia
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Chap. CXXXI.— An Act for the relief of Mary James, of Bedford county, Virginia. May 24, 1828. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the proper accounting officers of the treasury Payment to her in full for a half-monthly pension to her husband, pursuant to act of April 16, 1816, ch. 55.department are hereby authorized and required to pay to Mary James, the widow of Johnson James, late of the county of Bedford, in the state of Virginia, deceased, the sum of two hundred and forty dollars out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full of her claim for a half monthly pay pension for the term of five years, in pursuance of the act of Congress of the sixteenth April, eighteen hundred and sixteen; *Provided,* That the said Mary James, shall make it satisfactorily appear, that she was the lawful wife of the said Johnson James at the time of his death, and that she remained unmarried for the term of five years immediately thereafter.
Approved, May 24, 1828.