Chapter LIV. for the relief of Philip Turner
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Chap. LIV.— An Act for the relief of Philip Turner. April 22, 1808. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they hereby are authorized and directed, to liquidate and settle theAllowance of half-pay as captain. account of Philip Turner, late hospital physician and surgeon, and that they allow him the commutation equal to the half pay of a captain, agreeably to a resolution of Congress, passed on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one: *Provided,* the said Philip Turner, on the receipt of the money directed to be paid him by this act, shall execute in consideration thereof, a discharge to the United States, of all demands whatsoever, and deposit the same in the office of the register of the treasury.
Approved, April 22, 1808.