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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · March 10, 1828 · Chapter X

Chapter X. for the relief of William Thompson

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Chap. X.— An Act for the relief of William Thompson. March 10, 1828. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to William Thompson, late paymaster of the thirty-sixth regiment of Virginia$298.68 to be paid William Thompson on account of Elsey Farr and others. militia, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents, for so much money paid by said William Thompson on account of the services of Elsey Farr, Thomas Waters, William Gibbs, William M’Clanahan, John Pennquite, Isaac Silvey, Caleb Walker, Henry Way, Robert Shackleford, Fauntly R.
Stone, George Appleby, Ignatius Mitchell, William Remus, and George Scott, an allowance whereof was suspended for the want of proper vouchers, deducting therefrom any sum due from the said William Thompson to the United States: *Provided,*Proviso. That, before any money be paid under this act, the said William TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sesss. I. Ch. 11, 12, 13, 14. 1828. 372 Thompson shall execute a bond, with security, to the acceptance of said secretary, and payable to the United States, in the penal sum of six hundred dollars, conditioned to pay to the United States the like sums of money, that the treasurer thereof may pay to the legal representative of either of the persons above-named, on the production of proof that such a representative is entitled thereto.
Approved, March 10, 1828.
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