Chapter LXXIX. for the relief of Henry Newingham. June 15, 1844. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is,Land warrant to be issued to bint. directed to issue to Henry Newingham, in the right of William Marshall, who was a private soldier in Armand’s legion of the continental establis

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Chap. LXXIX.— An Act *for the relief of Henry Newingham.* June 15, 1844. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is,Land warrant to be issued to bint. directed to issue to Henry Newingham, in the right of William Marshall, who was a private soldier in Armand’s legion of the continental establishment in the revolutionary army, a warrant for the bounty land to which the said Marshal) would be entitled as such soldier; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to grant scrip for said warrant, in the manner, and on the conditions heretofore prescribed for the grant of scrip for bounty land: the said Marshall having intermarried with the mother of said Newingham, and died without lineal heirs: and having in his life-time been supported by the said Newingham, and in consideration thereof, before his death, delivered to him his original certificate of discharge from the army, and declared his intention that the said Newingham should have the benefit of said bounty land: *Provided*,Proviso.

That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prejudice the claim of any heirs, if any, of said Marshall. Approved, June 15, 1844.