Chapter XCVII. for the relief of sundry revolutionary and other officers and soldiers, and for other purposes
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Chap. XCVII.— An Act for the relief of sundry revolutionary and other officers and soldiers, and for other purposes. May 20, 1830. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, Secretary of War to place certain persons on the pension list.authorized and required to place the names of John L. Polleresky, a major, Samuel Snow, and David Meade Randolph, captains, Sylvanus Wood, Samuel Gerock, William Holgate, and Nathaniel Elliot, lieutenants, and George Wunder, an ensign, in the revolutionary war, on the list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay them each at the rate of twenty dollars a month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
Sec. 2. To be placed on invalid pension list. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the names of Samuel Hoadly, late a major, Robert Kane, an adjutant in a corps of volunteers, Zachariah S. Conger, John Downer, Stephen Shea, and Michael Fishel, lieutenants, and Henry Starring, jr. an ensign in the late war, on the list of invalid pensioners; and to pay them as follows, to wit: to Samuel Amounts of pension.Hoadly, twelve dollars a month, to Robert Kane, eight dollars a month, to Zachariah S.
Conger, fourteen dollars a month, to John Downer, fifteen dollars a month, to Stephen Shea, twenty dollars a month, to TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 97. 1830. 417 Michael Fishel, seventeen dollars a month, and to Henry Starring, jr. ten dollars a month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of War be,To be placed on revolutionary pension list. and he is hereby, required to place the names of the following persons upon the list of revolutionary pensioners, viz:
Samuel French, William Lawrence, Asa Wilkins, Stephen Fuller, Stephen Wilcox, Elijah Johnston, Samuel Sykes, Josiah Morse, Abiel Brown, John Lemmon, Andrew Bacon, Joseph Raynsford, Benjamin Mott, Joseph Boss, Levi Hutchins, John Perry, second, James Johnson, James Robinson, Chamberlain Hudson, Philemon Tiffany, Lemuel Pardee, Joseph Wilson, Isaac Smally, William Cole, Hartman Lower, John Reizer, Daniel Hinds, Joseph B. Jennison, Henry Romer, David Carswell, Joseph Barlow, Hamblin Cole, John Powell, Christopher Cary, William Scott, of Connecticut, Joseph Chaplin, John Putney, John Stout, Philip Nagle, Frederick Stull, James Porter, Absalom Baker, Richard Nagle, Robert Ditcher, Ezekiel Knowles, Caleb Wiseman, Thomas Putney, Anselm Bailey, William Scott, of Smithfield, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, Micajah Mayfield, Tristram Dagget, Edward Currin, George Geller, Samuel Fox, Joseph Nielson, Eli Sugart, Timothy Benedict, AsaQuiry, Seth Higley, William Higginbotham, Lemuel Withington, William Harris, Amos Ingraham, Benjamin Jones, Thomas Salsbury, John Israel, Elias Porter, Frederick Sheckler, Reuben Ricker, Anthony Sluthour, Reuben Carter, Joseph Smith, John Hudson, Nathaniel Fuller, Henry Doll, Amos Andrews, Valentine Stickell, Joel Riggins, William Vickroy, Joseph Randall, John McMurtry, James Long, William Rockwell, Stephen Bennet, Josiah Mott, Simon Fobes, Thomas Bloomfield, Obed Cushman, Nathan Lockwood, Dennis Jones, Robert Milton, James Needs, Christopher Ward, Eliakim Clap, William Pew, revolutionary soldiers, John McClain, a sailor, and Christopher Sype, a musician, and restore to the same list the names of Archibald Jackson, Roger Merrill, David Colson, Samuel Payson, Zadock Morris, Jacob Cramer, James Davidson, George Lucas, Jacob Redington, Ebenezer Beeman, Charles Sterns, Zacheus Rich, Francis Newton, Joshua Spears, Zephaniah Ross, Leonard Corl, and Moses Weld, and to pay them each at the rate of eight dollars a month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of War be,Certain allowances substituted for present pensions. and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, instead of their present pensions, to Humphrey Beckit, Levi Hathaway, and Jacob Zimmerman, revolutionary soldiers, the sum of eight dollars a month to the two former, four dollars to the latter, and eight dollars a month each to Minney Ryneason and George Doogan, soldiers of the late war, to commence respectively on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of War be,To be placed on invalid pension list. and he is hereby authorized and required to place the names of James McFarland, Henry Houser, James Ferrell, Esau Ritchey, George W. Morrison, Robert Gumbleton, Robert Curry, William Ferguson, Levi M. Roberts, William M. Fowler, Ebenezer Lord, Joseph Booth, John Carlton, second, soldiers of the late war, Tandehetse, a Seneca warrior of the late war, Thomas Flemming, Cornelius Huson, Stephen Twist, William Turney, James Riley, and Adrian Peters, on the list of invalid1831, ch. 94. pensioners, and to pay them at the rate of eight dollars per month each, commencing respectively on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of War be,To be placed on invalid pension list. and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the names of the following persons upon the invalid pension list, at the following rates, 418 TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 97. 1830. Amounts of pension.to wit: Silas Pease and Peter Shite, at the rate of eight dollars a month each; Joshua Bill, Henry Barton, Robert Mophet, James D. Richardson, and Daniel Depay, at the rate of five dollars thirty-three and one-third cents each;
Benjamin Gates, at the rate of six dollars; William Gamage, Isaac Plumer, Thomas Gilbert, Jonathan Edwards, Asa Pratt, Elisha Douglass, John Pearle, William Clark, Jonathan Hoyt, and Henry Johnson, an Indian warrior of the Six Nations, at the rate of four dollars a month each; commencing respectively on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight. Sec. 7. Pension due Wm. Little to be paid to his administratrix. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Ann Little, administratrix of the estate of William Little, deceased, the amount of pension of said William Little, for one year nine months and twenty-nine days.
Sec. 8. Rachel Turner. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of Rachel Turner, widow of Peter Turner, a soldier of the late war, on the list of half-pay pensioners, and pay to her at the rate of four dollars a month, for the term of five years, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. Sec. 9. And. Herrick. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of Andrew Herrick, a soldier of the revolution, and now a lunatic, upon the list of revolutionary pensioners, and pay to such person or persons as may be appointed and properly authorized, for the time being, to take charge of his person and estate, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
Sec. 10. Thomas Scott. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Thomas Scott, alias Knox, a soldier of the late war, and now a lunatic, upon the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, and to pay to such person or persons as may be appointed and properly authorized to take charge of the person and estate of said Thomas Scott, alias Knox, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; which said pension shall continue so long as the said secretary shall be satisfied of the continuance of the disability aforesaid.
Sec. 11. Minor children of C. Hurlburt. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, directed to pay to the minor children ofCollins Hurlburt, a soldier of the late war, their guardians, or such other person as may be lawfully authorized to receive the same for the use of the said children, the sum of four dollars per month, for the term of five years, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. Sec. 12. James Royal. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, authorized and required to place upon the pension roll, the name of James Royal, of Tennessee, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to be paid at the same time, and in the same manner, as pensions are usually paid, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Sec. 13. Appropriation. *And be it further enacted, *That the pensions aforesaid shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in the same manner that other pensions are now payable. Sec. 14. Arrears to be paid to widows, *And be it further enacted, *That in all cases of the death of any of the pensioners named in this act, leaving a widow, such widow shall be entitled to receive the arrears of pension due at the decease of her husband, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe.
Approved, May 20, 1830.