Chapter XCVII. for the relief of the widow and children of Abraham Owen
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Chap. XCVII.— An Act for the relief of the widow and children of Abraham Owen. March 3, 1817. *Be it enacted, &c., * The benefits of the 2d section of the act for the relief of the officers and soldiers who served in the campaign on the Wabash, extended to them. That the widow and children of Abraham Owen, late a volunteer aid-de-camp of General William H. Harrison, shall be entitled to all the benefits of the second section of an act of Congress, approved the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, entitled “An act for the relief of the officers and soldiers who served in the late campaign on the Wabash;” that they be allowed the same sum of money to which they would have been entitled had the rank of major been regularly assigned to the said Abraham Owen.
Sec. 2. Appropriation.Act of April 10, 1812, ch. 54. *And be it, further enacted, *That the said allowance be paid to the said widow and children, according to the provisions of the said act, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1817.